They All Love Jack

  • Author: Bruce Robinson
  • Narrator: Phil Fox
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 30:26:40
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Synopsis

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 to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized 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 no mere 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 institutionalized corruption.

Polemic forensic investigation and 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 important, how he managed to get away with it for so long.

Chapters

  • 021_They All Love Jack_Chapter_13

    Duration: 01h09min
  • 022_They All Love Jack_Chapter_14

    Duration: 57min
  • 023_They All Love Jack_Chapter_15

    Duration: 01h20min
  • 024_They All Love Jack_Chapter_16a

    Duration: 01h49s
  • 025_They All Love Jack_Chapter_16b

    Duration: 58min
  • 026_They All Love Jack_Chapter_17

    Duration: 35min
  • 027_They All Love Jack_Chapter_18a

    Duration: 01h15min
  • 028_They All Love Jack_Chapter_18b

    Duration: 01h11min
  • 029_They All Love Jack_Chapter_19a

    Duration: 01h08min
  • 030_They All Love Jack_Chapter_19b

    Duration: 01h26min
  • 031_They All Love Jack_Appendix 1a

    Duration: 47min
  • 032_They All Love Jack_Appendix 1b

    Duration: 44min
  • 033_They All Love Jack_Appendix 2

    Duration: 30min
  • 034_They All Love Jack_outro

    Duration: 34s
  • sample

    Duration: 01min
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