They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
By Bruce Robinson

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA
book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the
identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire
act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I.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 finally to reveal the identity
of the brutal murderer who terrorised 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 much more than a 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
institutionalised corruption.Polemic, forensic investigation,
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
importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.