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Strip Jack: Inspector Rebus, Book 4 [Audio Download]

by Ian Rankin (Author, Narrator), James Macpherson (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 6 hours and 38 minutes
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  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited
  • Audible Release Date: 19 Aug 2008
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SPVJKK
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE INTRODUCTION READ BY IAN RANKIN.

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.

©1992 Ian Rankin; (P)2002 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Budge Burgess TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format: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).

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By T. Barr
Format: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.
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By Clive
Format: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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superb.
Reading all of the Rebus books in order - this is my favourite to date. Dont want to put it down.

Recommended.
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Scott Finlayson
Enjoyable Rankin
I found this CD very enjoyable and quite surprising. Having not read the book, but having seen the TV adaptation of this story, I was surprised to find that essentially there were... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Elizabeth-Anne
My Review Of Strip Jack
STRIP JACK

Another amazing Rebus novel by Ian Rankin. This book starts off a little slower than the rest of Rebus novels I have read so far. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2009 by Malcolm Conway
Good solid read
This was a good solid Rebus story. It is one that I hadn't read 'in sequence' with the rest of the novels, but I found the plot had plenty of twists and good characters - also nice... Read more
Published on 14 May 2009 by Lamby Doll
Slow Start VERY fast and exciting finish
Well, Rebus is back in this great book.

A Scottish MP is caught in a brothel, it all seems a fair cop at the start but it soon becomes apparent something is rather... Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2007 by Martin Giles
stripped bare
I watched a documentary recently with Ian Rankin on BBC 4 I think and thought Id try a Rebus novel. I had picked a couple up in a charity shop so gave one (fleshmarket close) a... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2007 by Gary R. Woodburn
The fourth Rebus
This is another great Rebus novel and is better than the previous three. It is full of humour with loads of one-liners and puns. Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2006 by Tim Roast
Spoken Word Award
The excellent audiobook version of 'Strip Jack', read by James Macpherson, recently (Sept 2003) won the award in the Crime / Thriller' category of The Spoken Word Awards 2003. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2003 by Helen T
Sheer Brilliance
You read one and you just have to read all the others until finished and then read them again. Strip Jack has you hanging on every word never wanting to put the book down. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2002 by bav333@hotmail.com
Keep locking them up Inspector
I opened the pages with caution, was I ready to enter Rankins seedy underbelly of Edinburgh with Inspector Rebus at the helm, yet another brilliantly complex plot wrote with such... Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2002 by marc.malone@mintball.com
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