â€œ[A] dark, bloody triumph...convincingly mad, alternatively even-tempered, hallucinatory and cackling...the bookâ€™s characters are great, its race to capture the murder is beautifully

I, Ripper: A Novel

â€œ[A] dark, bloody triumph...convincingly mad, alternatively even-tempered, hallucinatory and cackling...the bookâ€™s characters are great, its race to capture the murder is beautifully tense, and it has one of the best twists I can remember in any recent historical thriller.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œAbsolutely riveting....Authentic in tone, well researched, and darkly atmospheric of Victorian London, this historical thriller combines the quiet plausibility of the psychopath in Thomas Harrisâ€™ Red Dragon (1981) with the menacing tone of Kenneth Cameronâ€™s The Frightened Man (2009).â€ â€”Booklist

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in Londonâ€™s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just killâ€”he ripped with a butcherâ€™s gleeâ€”and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

I, Ripper is a vivid reimagining of Jackâ€™s personal story entwined with that of an Irish journalist who covered the case, knew the principals, charted the investigation, and at last, stymied, went off in a bold new direction. These two men stalk each other through a city twisted in fear of the madmanâ€™s blade, a cat-and-mouse game that brings to life the sounds and smells of the fleshpot tenderloin of Whitechapel and all the lurid acts that fueled the Ripper headlines.

Dripping with intrigue, atmosphere, and diabolical twists, this is a magnificent psychological thriller from perennial New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter, who the San Francisco Examiner calls â€œone of the best storytellers of his generation.â€
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber FLAPK9781476764856
ReleaseDate 2015-05-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476764856

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	FLAPK9781476764856
ReleaseDate	2015-05-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476764856

I, Ripper: A Novel

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