Edinburgh
Names: EdinburghOld TownAuldReekie
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 16 (15)
Appearances
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 16Nigel rescues Jamie and they discuss psi research
Nigel finds Jamie in the fog and drives him back. Jamie argues psi research is futile until strong psychics evolve, and persuades Nigel to work with him on training clairvoyance after his degree.
- Book 1 · Ch 37CIA approaches Nigel
CIA agents offered Nigel two million pounds and veiled threats; he refused and set their cases alight, prompting Jamie and Nigel to decide on an early public EE demonstration.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Attack in the close
Walking home, Jamie is mentally compelled into an Old Town close by an operant assassin with a tube weapon, but a burly stranger grabs him and drives the attacker off.
- Book 1 · Ch 40California card experiment
Nigel Weinstein in Edinburgh remotely views and writes down three sealed cards held in California; all three are confirmed correct to the audience's uproar.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Alana exposes Maurer's weapon
Alana in Auckland views Maurer's verse, then sees his camera is a weapon. Journalists tackle him and smash it; he is arrested.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Pub confession
In Greyfriars Bobby's Bar, Finster coerces the drunk KGB man Sami into admitting the Cold War is over and both agents are finished.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Hydra plants the holiday idea
Hydra, exploiting Masha's weakened mental screen after rejuvenation, implants the idea of a holiday, then watches the family tea party in Edinburgh.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee picks Islay
Hydra telepathically implants an image of Islay in Dee and compels Masha; Dee's blind stylus point lands on Islay, dismaying Viola and Masha, who agree to go anyway.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Adults explain away the coincidence
Viola, Robert and Rowan all realise they thought of Islay and conclude Masha's unsettled post-regen brain accidentally projected it.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Funeral in Edinburgh
After police questioning, the family attended the Requiem Mass and burial of the ashes of Mummie, Uncle Robbie and Aunt Rowan. Ken gave Dee an acorn.