Strip Jack, Ian Rankin
Strip Jack, Ian Rankin
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Strip Jack
Inspector Rebus, Book 4

Author: Ian Rankin

Narrator: Samuel Gillies

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/29/2011


Synopsis

Inspector Rebus initially feels sorry for MP Gregor Jack, a rising star of the political arena. After all, it's sheer bad luck that Gregor happened to be in a brothel during a police raid. At least, it looks that way to begin with. However, when Jack's wife also seems to have disappeared, Rebus begins to suspect that someone is maliciously trying to destroy the young man for reasons only known to themselves...

About Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 29, 2024

As I continue my journey through the early episodes of this excellent crime series, I reach book 4. Detective Inspector Rebus is as curmudgeon as ever and still can’t quite bring himself to give any real respect to authority. His personal life is in some disorder, too. He really must devote some tim......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on March 03, 2025

3.5 I’m going with a short but sweet review here— mostly because I don’t want to accidentally spoil anything. Plus, it’s after midnight and that darn alarm clock beckons. So after reading the first two Rebus books, I had to skip a few as our library system doesn’t own all of the older entries in this......more

Goodreads review by Baba on April 13, 2023

Inspector Rebus case No. 4: Yet another interesting and well composed Rebus case. MP Gregor Jack is found by the police and press at a brothel - and that's just the start of the MP's troubles. Rebus is sympathetic to Jack as the media frenzy picks up pace, but as more is revealed, he begins to have......more

Goodreads review by John on August 08, 2022

An early Rebus when he was gentler and had more humour. Some good puns in this story. An MP Gregor Jack is caught in a police raid in a brothel. Then his wife Liz disappears. There is two groups of friends with lots of red herrings. Rankin shares his musical tastes with Rebus and Jack liking similar......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on February 24, 2019

A complex web of college friends now mostly successful adults present some baffling puzzles for Rebus to untangle, not before deaths and not without Rebus losing his hair to fire in a battle to bring justice.......more