Strip Jack

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: James Macpherson

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...

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...

Read by James Macpherson

(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group©1992 John Rebus Ltd

Critic reviews

Ian Rankin is a genius (Lee Child)

No one writes more gripping stories than Rankin ... Rebus is a good cop and a masterly creation

Britain's No.1 crime writer

One of the most beguiling characters in the history of crime fiction

Rankin proves himself the master of his own milieu ... There cannot be a better crime novelist

An extraordinarily rich addition to crime literature

These novels are totally absorbing

Love the story, but could not get to the end.

I usually like Ian Rankin very much, he is on of my 5 preferred authors. Yet I could not get to the end this time.
I do not want anyone to think this is a critic of the book, not at all.
But I am from Denmark, so English is a second language to me. This gave me a lot of problems because of this audiobooks narration. It is, from my point of view read in heavily dialected English, and that broke my back.
I think this book should be narrated by another, someone with a more neutral English.