They All Love Jack
- Author: Bruce Robinson
- Narrator: Phil Fox
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 30:26:40
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
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001_They All Love Jack_intro
Duration: 11s -
002_They All Love Jack_Author's Note
Duration: 07min -
003_They All Love Jack_Chapter_01a
Duration: 01h01min -
004_They All Love Jack_Chapter_01b
Duration: 01h22min -
005_They All Love Jack_Chapter_02a
Duration: 56min -
006_They All Love Jack_Chapter_02b
Duration: 46min -
007_They All Love Jack_Chapter_03
Duration: 41min -
008_They All Love Jack_Chapter_04a
Duration: 01h03min -
009_They All Love Jack_Chapter_04b
Duration: 41min -
010_They All Love Jack_Chapter_05
Duration: 39min -
011_They All Love Jack_Chapter_06
Duration: 59min -
012_They All Love Jack_Chapter_07a
Duration: 01h04min -
013_They All Love Jack_Chapter_07b
Duration: 34min -
014_They All Love Jack_Chapter_08
Duration: 01h13min -
015_They All Love Jack_Chapter_09a
Duration: 01h02min -
016_They All Love Jack_Chapter_09b
Duration: 50min -
017_They All Love Jack_Chapter_10
Duration: 01h16min -
018_They All Love Jack_Chapter_11
Duration: 01h09min -
019_They All Love Jack_Chapter_12a
Duration: 01h44s -
020_They All Love Jack_Chapter_12b
Duration: 48min