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Strip Jack [Abridged] [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Ian Rankin (Author), James Macpherson (Reader)
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Orion (6 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752852485
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752852485
  • Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 10.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 879,928 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Here DI John Rebus investigates why someone wants to strip MP Gregor Jack of everything that matters to him - and be warned, this one you'll want to stay in the car for until it ends.' -- Kati Nicholl Sunday Express 'DI Rebus isn't convinced by a Scottish MP's story. A twist-in-the-tale tape-turner, one of Rankin's best, brilliantly read by James Macpherson.' CHOICE 'won a gold medal in the crime category at this year's Spoken Words awards. Bliss' The Irish Times

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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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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Fourth Rebus mystery - a good story, well told, 7 Jun 2005
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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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).

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another cracking Rebus tale, but not one of the very best., 3 Jul 2000
By T. Barr (Coleraine, N. Ireland) - See all my reviews
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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.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant novel from Scotlands best writer, 20 May 1999
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This review is from: Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus) (Paperback)
This book is well worth a read.

It was the first book I read in the Inspector Rebus series and i've been hooked since.

Miss it, miss out.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lamby Doll

4.0 out of 5 stars 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 22 months ago by Martin Giles

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 22 months ago by Gary R. Woodburn

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 10 Feb 2002 by marc.malone@mintball.com

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely compelling stuff
Rankin really hits the spot with any thriller readers with this book. Classy tale of Scotland's underworld. Superb plot! Read this now
Published on 5 April 2000

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