Título: Jack of Jumps
Autor: David Seabrook
Sinopse: A dark and deep dive into the Jack the Stripper murders that rips open sixties London and leaves her swinging from a lamp-post for all to finally see (David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet). Between 1959 and 1965, eight prostitutes were murdered in West London by a serial killer. The killers motive and identity were the subject of endless speculation by the media, who dubbed him Jack the Stripper. Links to the Profumo scandal, boxer Freddie Mills and the notorious Kray twins were rumored. By the time the body of the eighth victim was found in February 1965, a massive police operation was underway to catch the killer. The whole country waited to see what would happen next. The police had staked everything on the murderer striking again. But he didnt . . . David Seabrook, the author of All the Devils Are Here, interviewed surviving police officers, witnesses and associates of the victims and examined the evidence, the rumors and the half-truths. He reconstructs every detail of the investigation and recreates the dark, brutal world of prostitutes and pimps in 1960s West London. He questions the theory that the polices prime suspect was Jack the Stripper and confronts the disturbing possibility that the killer is still at large. Seabrook taps away at the darker recesses of the metropolitan mind, relishing the fact that his subject is so heroically unglamorous.The Guardian The genius of this one is how it teases horror from the banal . . . A terrifying portrait of the dark side of Notting Hill and Shepherds Bush at the time, with its stew of sex, drugs, immigration, violence, and a residual white working-class.The Telegraph
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Jack of Jumps”, de David Seabrook, publicado pela editora Granta Publications, em 2014 e com 341 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Granta Publications
Páginas: 341
Ano: 2014
Edição:
Linguagem: English
ISBN: 1783781254
ISBN13: 9781783781256
