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Strip Jack

Summary

MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh 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.

Initially Detective Inspector 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...

Reviews

'John Rebus, an outstanding creation... Very ambitious and very confident with acute observation of the not so bonny side of Scotland'
Daily Telegraph

'Rankin moves dialogue with the precision of a chess-master'
Irish Times