Strip Jack: MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. Then Jack's wife disappears. Someone wants to strip Jack naked & Rebus wants to know why. The Black Book: When a close colleague is brutally attacked Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire an unidentified body & a long-forgotten night of terror & murder. Rebus must piece together a jigsaw no one wants completed. Mortal Causes: It is August in Edinburgh & the Festival is in full swing. A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets & Rebus suspects the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of terrorism in a city heaving with tourists is unthinkable.