They All Love Jack

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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

  • 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
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