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    Strip Jack
    Strip Jack
    Strip Jack
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    Strip Jack

    Written by Ian Rankin

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

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    Gold Dagger-winner and best-selling author in the United Kingdom, Ian Rankin crafts absorbing crime novels with solidly drawn characters and first-rate plotting. In Strip Jack, he portrays a shocking murder investigation that exposes the sordid side of Edinburgh politics and society. Detective John Rebus suspects a set-up when a respected Member of Parliament is caught in a police raid on a brothel-and his flamboyant wife suddenly disappears. After the woman's badly beaten body shows up, it becomes Rebus' job to find the killer. Is the MP really self-destructing as circumstances suggest? Or is a bitter enemy out to get him? Suddenly Rebus finds himself facing off with a cunning killer who holds all the cards. Narrator Samuel Gillies' well-paced performance underscores all the tension in this intriguing read.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 29, 2011
    ISBN9781461811947
    Strip Jack
    Author

    Ian Rankin

    Ian Rankin is the worldwide #1 bestselling writer of the Inspector Rebus books, including Knots and Crosses, Let It Bleed, Black and Blue, Set in Darkness, Resurrection Men, A Question of Blood, The Falls and Exit Music. He is also the author of The Complaints and Doors Open. He has won an Edgar Award, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to literature. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.

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    • 3/5
      Strange to say, this book is the Rebus book that stuck in my head the most since I first read them, several years ago. I think the idea of it, peeling back the layers to expose the real Jack, got into my head and stayed there. And I played the card game that's used as a metaphor when I was a kid.

      Relatively easy to read, and with some interesting touches -- like the man in the psychiatric ward who asks Rebus to touch the earth for him. Interesting thoughts. And finally, no homosexuality in it anywhere, in any way. Which seems odd for me to say, but LGBT issues seem tangled up in the problems of the first three books: Reeve's attachment to Rebus in Knots & Crosses; the male prostitutes in Hide & Seek; Chambers' gender issues in Tooth & Nail. It's a relief not to have that in this book.

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    • 4/5
      Loved this taut, character-rich, smart detective novel. In fact, reading this was so freakin' satisfying that I felt ticked about the time I've wasted recently on some new books that were marketed with a lot of vigor but left me wondering how they even got published. I was starting to think I was just not enjoying reading any more - a sad thought. But no, just sad excuses being published and promoted. How does that happen? I thought it was so competitive to get published. Oh well. I remember reading that Jean Paul Sartre read detective mysteries for pleasure. Sometimes I've thought, wow, that's sort of embarrassing, isn't it. But not today! Ian Rankin writes circles around these ridiculous authors I've tried lately. Life's too short, man. I need to trust my gut
    • 4/5
      A Great Read, Rankin always comes up with the goods :o)
    • 4/5
      I didn't discover Ian Rankin's Rebus books until I read The Falls, which was (I think) the 13th book out of 18. I have read all of the ones after The Falls but when Ian Rankin decided John Rebus was retiring in Exit Music I felt bereft. Thank goodness there were all those other books before The Falls which I hadn't read. This is book #5, the earliest one I have been able to lay my hands on so far.Rebus is not the curmudgeonly outcast he became in the later books but signs are showing. He is one of a team of Edinburgh police that raid a brothel late one Friday night. One of the men found within the brothel is MP Gregor Jack, a very popular Independent MP with no previous stains on his character. Since someone has tipped off the newspapers, his discovery cannot be kept secret. Rebus and DS Brian Holmes, who lives in Jack's constituency, are somewhat disappointed in the MP but he hasn't actually committed a crime. Rebus suspects that this was a set up and has a word with Jack the next day. He discovers that Jack's wife is away and there hasn't been any communication from her. When this silence continues for a number of days, Rebus gets a bad feeling so he isn't particularly surprised when Liz Jack's body is discovered. Rebus sets out to find out where Mrs. Jack spent her last days, with whom she spent them and who killed her. His instincts prove valuable and, despite many false leads, he is able to discover the answers to all those questions.It was an interesting read but I don't think the mystery was as compelling as some of the later books. However, it does fill in some of the back story and I am glad to have read it.
    • 3/5
      Some good stuff (the hospital for the criminally insane), but one too many twists.
    • 5/5
      The Jack is Gregor Jack, MSP. Rankin cleverly weaves in the new Scottish political scene in this excellent story.
    • 4/5
      This was my first exposure to Scottish Inspector John Rebus. I heard an interview with Ian Rankin on NPR about the retirement of Rebus and the creation of a new character. This was interesting to me so I picked up this early volume (#4) at a used book store. It was a real "where have you been my whole life" kind of moment. I enjoy mysteries, but there was something in the writing, something in the style, that I found particularly appealing. Rebus is not the best detective, not the nicest, or even the hardest working - but he lands in a case where a popular politician has been found in a brothel and a scandal ensues. Then the politician's wife is missing, then she is dead, and Rebus must sort out the various friends and sycophants that surround them and find the motive and the killer. Very well done - I was guessing (wrong in some cases) all the way until nearly the last 10 pages. That is quite a feat.
    • 4/5
      When I chanced upon Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series I took no chances and tucked into it with gusto. The first in the series, Knots and Crosses wasn't all that, in fact it wasn't a very stron mystery. But as I went through the series one by one, the experienced stopped being a slop and became more os a joy. This book has been very entertaining and has rewarded my faith in Rankin.The storyline and plot are structures in Rankin's novels. Not that they are bad but they are merely one of many reasons to read the book. His writing is gossipy, psychological, sometimes schizophrenic but always rewarding to the reader because it encompasses so much. This story had the best flowing narrative so far. The description of the crime scene investigation part of the story is detailed, horryfying, and fascinating, even though it is just a peripheral part of the story. The discourses on books and the literary world is also fascinating but also peripheral. This series embodies all that is great with a multifaceted explorarion of crime and crime solving with hte grit and realism of a Dashiel Hammett novel.
    • 3/5
      Interesting mystery and police procedural. The press hound a Scottish MP when he is found in a brothel. His wife subsequently goes missing. Rebus investigates.
    • 4/5
      Rebus is back in Edinburgh and is now struggling with, not the city's grimy underbelly, but rather its grimy "overbelly" when he tries to find out what happened to an MP's missing wife. It's a solid story and the characters are, as usual, very interesting, but since we're now dealing with affluent people whose crimes aren't committed because of a mix of desperation and societal influences, the stakes seem to be slightly lower than in the other Rebus-books. If you see this installment of the series more as a showing of inter-personal politics than a straight crime-story, it's a new angle that adds a little extra to the already three-dimensional world of the characters.
    • 5/5
      There’s been a tip off. In a rather middle class area of Edinburgh there’s a brothel, and the Superintendant ‘Farmer’ Watson is outraged. A big operation is conducted to raid the place. Rebus thinks this is a shame, when they’re not harming anyone, and there are so many worse crimes that go unsolved and often unseen in Edinburgh’s back streets. It’s also regrettable that caught red in the face is one of Edinburgh’s MPs, and the press is on hand to photograph it all. Rebus feels a bit sorry for MP Gregor Jack, because all the clues are pointing to someone setting him up to take a fall. Then Jack’s wife disappears, and things start getting murkier and murkier…This is, with the possible exception of The Falls, the best Rebus book I’ve read so far. Excellently written as always, Rebus is a brilliant creation that you feel you know really well. The plot twists keep you guessing all the time. More fast paced that some of his others, the plot hurtles along, but the best part about the Rebus books, particularly this one is the characterisation, and the wonderful, grimy Edinburgh setting. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      That is what John Rebus finds when he is dealing with an MP who has been caught in a house of ill repute. John keeps going back to Gregor Jack trying to help him fix the damage to his career, but while this is going on Jack's wife is missing. Rebus has many bad feelings, and when her body turns ups, Rebus and his faithful Sergeant Holmes trail a killer. The investigation throws them up against some of the so-called "cream" of society, and John has to pussyfoot around in order not to upset feelings. These Rebus books are really good. I enjoy Rankin's eccentric and spare writing style. I also enjoy the look at Scotland that the books give. And most of all I enjoy Rebus. He is a real character! The mysteries are always quite complex. Lots of fun.