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  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; New Ed edition (1 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0754023001
  • ISBN-13: 978-0754023005
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 242,274 in Books (See Bestsellers 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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. James Macpherson has played DCI Jardine in Taggart for sixteen years, and has acted on stage in plays as diverse as The Taming of the Shrew and works by Hamish Wilson. He has presented a regular books programme for Radio Scotland - for which he has interviewed Ian Rankin. He won a Gold Award for his reading of Strip Jack at the Spoken Word Awards 2004. He lives in Glasgow. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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 July 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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4.0 out of 5 stars Slow Start VERY fast and exciting finish
Well, Rebus is back in this great book.

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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars The fourth Rebus
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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
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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
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