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Strip Jack - Ian Rankin

Description: ISBN 0752877232 / Author: Ian Rankin / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to ... more

Strip Jack - Ian Rankin ... 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...Initially Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's dilemma - who hasn't occasionally succumbed to temptation? - but with the disappearance of Jack's wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why.

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... most promising detective novel author from the estate of th e renowned American detective novelist, Raymond Chandler. ~ ~ Strip Jack, like all of the Rebus novels, is set against the backdrop of Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. But this is an Edinburgh that very few tourists to the city would ever be likely to see. Rankin knows his way around the dark underbelly of Edinburgh as well...more

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Strip Jack - Ian Rankin: Strip Jack (But Not Quite Naked) (1110 words)
by kenjohn - written on 13/02/04 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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~ ~ One of the reviews I wrote on my very first day here at dooyoo way back in December 2000 was about an Inspector Rebus novel (Dead Souls) by the celebrated Scots crime author Ian Rankin. I?d read a couple of his novels at that stage and enjoyed them, and had every intention of going on to read the rest of the Inspector Rebus series, which now consists of some fifteen books. But somehow the intention never became a reality, and it was to be three more years before I again cracked the pages of a Rankin novel, when I picked up an omnibus edition of three Rebus novels in my local bookstore for ...

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