- Mass Market Paperback: 269 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition (May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312965141
- ISBN-13: 978-0312965143
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.6 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,688,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Someone is stripping Jack naked.... Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack's carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a "mistake" during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn't, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum... With his wife missing, his job on the line and his sanity in doubt, Gregor Jack is ripe for revenge.
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Ian Rankin lives with his wife and two sons in Edinburgh having returned from a six-year sojourn in France. He was born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960. He graduated from Edinburgh University and has worked as a grape picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist and punk musician. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the books are now in translation, as well as being increasingly popular in the USA. Ian Rankin has been a Hawthornden Fellow and is winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award as well as two Crime Writers' Association "Daggers" for short stories; his novel Black & Blue won the 1997 Gold Dagger.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fourth Rebus mystery - a good story, well told,
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This review is from: Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus) (Paperback)
The fourth of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, and one which I found stylistically unsettling. It opens with a police raid on a brothel and the discovery of an MP, caught in apparent flagrante. The case takes on its inevitable sensational aspect as the tabloid press seek to exploit the potential, but for the police matters become somewhat stalled by a brutal murder. Is the murder linked to the MP's problems and his collapsing world, or is it a separate, distinct crime, mundane but for its violence?Rankin has Rebus quitting Edinburgh for a Scottish tour. He will range from Fife to the Highlands. In the process it becomes an almost 'cosy' little mystery as the investigation takes in the MP's world, a world of success and cronyism. However, it's also a novel which explores the nature of relationships, of infidelity, loyalty, and jealousy - it looks at love, at lust, at the problem deciding whether or not you can cope with having to share space with another human being ... or cope with not being able to share that space. The plot gets a bit too fluid in places - Rebus seems to have carte blanche to roam off his patch and make use of resources from other Scots police forces. Rankin's approach contrasts with that of some eminently successful English crime writers, who create believable small villages or rural patches (think St.Mary Mead or Midsomer) in which the death rate is far in excess of Baghdad's. You sense that he feels Edinburgh is too claustrophobic an environment, that is can't sustain sensational murder after sensational murder. Rankin is a better writer when he stays within Edinburgh - 'Strip Jack' feels a bit forced in places, a bit up-market. Nevertheless, it's a good story well told (as usual).
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another cracking Rebus tale, but not one of the very best.,
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This review is from: Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus) (Paperback)
Ian Rankin never disappoints in his Inspector Rebus stories, but while this one is certainly very good it never quite reaches the realms of excellence that some of the other novels achieve. Maybe it's the fact that a lot of the action takes place away from the claustrophobic Edinburgh environment and underworld that Rankin usually brings so vividly to life. A breath of fresh country air may not always be recommended. Still, if you are a Rebus fan, or even if you are just looking for a good read in the crime genre, you will enjoy this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Average outing for Rebus,
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This review is from: Strip Jack (Paperback)
This book reminded me of a typical Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery. The story centres around an MP's friends and associates and those of his wife's. Rebus starts by trying to clear the name of the MP and then ends up trying to solve the murder of the MP's wife. The novel was quick and fairly short. I did not think the story was particularly tight and there was little tension. Overall an average outing for Rebus, but far from a classic.
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