Strip Jack
MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinbourgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. When the media horde begins baying for political blood Jack's friends rally round to protect him. But some of those friends - particularly his wife's associates - are not so...
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MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinbourgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets.
When the media horde begins baying for political blood Jack's friends rally round to protect him. But some of those friends - particularly his wife's associates - are not so squeaky clean themselves.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780752809564 (0752809563)
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Hard Boiled,
Scotland
Series: Inspector Rebus (#4)
This is the one -- the book that finally sold me on the John Rebus series (I say "finally" as if it's been a years' long effort, not just book 4). Everything worked for me here. Rebus is trying to track down a rare book thief, and puts as much effort into that as you'd imagine most fictional detec...
bookshelves: summer-2010, published-1992, britain-scotland, mystery-thriller, books-about-books-and-book-shops, film-only, re-read, winter-20112012, series, families Read from August 07, 2010 to February 05, 2012, read count: 3 3* - Knots and Crosses (1987)4* - Tooth and Nail (1991)3* - Hide and...
3* - Knots and Crosses (1987)4* - Tooth and Nail (1991)3* - Hide and Seek (1991)3* - Strip Jack (1992)4* - A Good Hanging (1992)3* - The Black Book (1993)3* - Mortal Causes (1994)3* - Let it Bleed (1995)TR - Blood Hunt (1995)4* - Black and Blue (1997)3* - The Hanging Garden (1998)3* - Dead Souls (19...
My second Det. Insp. Rebus novel and I liked it better than the first one (Knots and Crosses). A plot involving conspiracy against a MP which gets ugly with the murder of his wife. A psycho killer set loose in Edinburg and some rare book collection stolen further complicates/enriches the plot. Ofcou...
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