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They All Love Jack - Busting the Ripper (Paperback)
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They All Love Jack - Busting the Ripper (Paperback)
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Loot Price R427
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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like
no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of
history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from
the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I. For over a
hundred years, 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper' has been a source
of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of
obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to
reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian
England. But what if there was never really any 'mystery' at all?
What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately
leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to
look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting
to bring him to justice? In THEY ALL LOVE JACK, the award-winning
film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up
that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to
remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is
much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper
legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary
high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is
an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian
society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites and
institutionalised corruption. Polemic, forensic investigation,
panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and
delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, THEY
ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book,
demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts -
the so-called 'Ripperologists' - to make clear, at last, who really
did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it
for so long.
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