Strip Jack: Ian Rankin

Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth - to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack`s carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a `mistake` during a police raid on a notorious Edinburgh brothel. Then Elizabeth disappears, a couple of bodies float into view where they shouldn`t, and a lunatic speaks from his asylum...

Initially 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...