2020/035: Dolly and the Nanny Bird -- Dorothy Dunnett

2020/035: Dolly and the Nanny Bird -- Dorothy Dunnett

You couldn't say of the anthropologists that they were stoned out of their skulls: but neither were they in the way of dealing with what you might call emergencies. The Booker-Readmans had, at public or finishing school, never even met a Boy Scout. But you would expect, alone in the howling wastelands of Canada, in a deserted railway carriage with the temperature at twenty five under, that the men for the job would be Eskimos. [p.22]

Dorothy Dunnett is one of my favourite novelists: her thrillers, while much lighter and less epic than her better-known historical sagas, are written with typical verve, humour and drama.
( no major spoilers )