Inspector Rebus · Book 4
Strip Jack
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 287
- ISBN-13
- 9780752883564
- Type
- novel
About this book
Strip Jack, the fourth novel at 287 pages, followed close behind Tooth and Nail in the same year, 1992, continuing the early run of Rebus procedurals set against Edinburgh's political and criminal undercurrents.
Its place in Inspector Rebus
Strip Jack is book 4 in the Inspector Rebus series. It follows Tooth and Nail. It is followed by A Good Hanging and Other Stories. See the full Inspector Rebus reading order.
John Rebus is a Detective Inspector with Edinburgh CID: a hard-drinking, rule-bending insomniac who solves cases as much through stubbornness and an instinct for the city's underside as through procedure. Ian Rankin builds each novel around a real strand of Edinburgh life — the tourist Old Town sitting on top of a much darker New Town of gangsters, corrupt councillors and old sectarian grudges — and lets Rebus's insubordination with his superiors (and his complicated, decades-long feud-turned-uneasy-alliance with…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752809564
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752883564