Ted Lewis

Jack Carter, principal sicario de los mafiosos londinenses Les y Gerald Fletcher, regresa a su ciudad natal en el norte de Inglaterra tras ocho años de ausencia. La última vez que estuvo allí fue para enterrar a su padre, y ahora vuelve para el funeral de

THE NOVEL BEHIND THE CULT FILM STARRING MICHAEL CAINE Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral - his brother Franks. Franks car was found at the bottom of a cliff, with Frank inside. He was not only dead drunk but dead as well. What could have made sensible Frank down a bottle of whisky and get behind the wheel? For Jack, his death doesnt add up. So he decides to talk to a few people, do some sniffing around. He does, but is soon told to stop. By Gerald and Les, his bosses from the smoke. Not to mention the men who run things in Doncaster, who arent happy with Jacks little holiday at home. They want him back in London, and fast. Now Frank was a mild man and did as he was told, but Jacks not a bit like that ...

Jack Carter is home for his brother Franks funeral. Franks car was found at the bottom of a cliff, with Frank inside. He was not only dead drunk but dead as well. Why would sensible Frank down a bottle of whisky and get behind the wheel? For Jack, his death doesnt add up. So he decides to talk to a few people, but he is soon told to stop.

Reminiscent of the work of American writers J.D. Salinger and Henry Roth, The Rabbit is Ted Lewiss (Get Carter) most autobiographical work and an emotionally complex portrait of what it was to come of age in post-war England It is the late 1950s and Victor Graves is an art school student whose father manages a rock quarry not far from their home in Lincolnshire. He is the apple of his mothers eye, but Victors dad thinks his son takes for granted the life he provides. He sets Victor up to work in the quarry for the summer holiday, breaking rocks to harvest flint. It is in the quarry that the thin, awkward Victor meets Clacker. Tattooed and sinewy, Clacker swings the rock hammer all day and by night kits out in Teddy boy trappings for long bouts of carousing. For Victor he epitomizes masculinity. Yet the always glib Clacker refuses to accept Victor. Desperate to prove himself, the sensitive Victor begins to spend more time in pubs and picking fights. Everything begins to unravel after a disturbing incident at work sends Victor on a dangerous downward spiral. Though known best as one of Britains most important crime writers, Ted Lewis had the soul of a poet. This powerfully emotional novel is a moving portrait of small town lifethe pubs and the people, the workaday lifeas seen by a young man navigating through the cultural and sexual confusion of 1950s England.

Ted Lewis is one of Englands finest, but still most neglected post-war writersTwo men share a common history. Growing up together in the small town of Barton-Upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, England, Peter Knott is everything that Brian Plender wishes he were. Knott is suave, good-looking, an exemplary student and popular. The friendship they maintain is as important to Plender as it is forgettable to Knott, and eventually leads to a lasting humiliation for Brian.Years later Brian Plender is a dangerous man; a private investigator who specializes in extortion, blackmail, and intimidation. Knott meanwhile is a family man adrift, beholden to his wife for money.When, at a bar he uses to set up marks, Plender spots Knott with a girl way too young to be his wife he decides to follow the pair and see what happens. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat trip into a nightmare story that manages to be both incredibly creepy and eerily profound.

Its the 1960s and Billy Cracken is a hard man to keep locked up. An austere and troubled childhood has given way to life as a hardened criminal and now status as one of the most feared prisoners in England. He has been moved from one maximum security prison to the next. Guards and inmates alike fear and begrudgingly respect the powerfully-built Cracken. But a life doing his porridge, even if as a minor celebrity, isnt the one he wants.A girlfriend and a child await Cracken on the outside and hell stop at nothing to get to them. While plotting his escape he crosses a powerful mobster who vows to make Crackens life hell, and if nothing else succeeds at making his escape all the more difficult, something the ever-rebellious Cracken defiantly relishes.The follow-up novel to the wildly successful Get Carter, Billy Rags is a fascinating look into the lives of British inmates serving time in a maximum security prison. Lewis manages once again to tell an exciting, action-filled story with a soul - demonstrated most clearly in a series of brilliant flashbacks to Billys childhood and in the end conjures a character that will remind readers of both Tom Hardy in Bronson and Lee Marvin in Point Blank.

A NEW EDITION OF A CRIME MASTERWORK FROM THE AUTHOR OF GET CARTER British crime icon Ted Lewiss GBH is an unnerving tale of paranoia and madness in the heart of Londons 1970s criminal underworld.Ted Lewis is one of Englands finest, but still most neglected post-war writersGeorge Fowler heads a lucrative london-based criminal syndicate that specializes in illegal pornography. Fowler is king, with a beautiful woman at his side and a swanky penthouse office, but his world is in jeopardy. Someone is undermining his empire from within, and Fowler becomes increasingly ruthless in his pursuit of the unknown traitor, trusting an ever-smaller set of advisers.Juxtaposed with the terror and violence of Fowlers last days in London is the flash-forward narrative of his hideout bunker in a tiny English beach town, where he skulks during the off-season, trying to salvage his fallen empire. Just as it seems possible for Fowler to rise again, another trigger may cause his total, irreparable unravelling.

The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant...London. The late 1960s. Its Christmas and Jack Carters the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les Fletcher. Hes also a worried man. The fact that hes sleeping with Geralds wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away together with a lot of the brothers money, doesnt have Jack concerned. Instead its an informant - one of his own men - that has him losing sleep. The grass has enough knowledge about the firm to not only bring down Gerald and Les but Jack as well. Jack doesnt like his name in the mouth of that sort.

Written at a tough point in his career and heavily influenced by Blaxploitation films and cop movies like Dirty Harry, Ted Lewiss lone novel set in America is a nasty and brutal look at police corruption in the United States.Roy Boldt is a bad cop. Corrupt. Violent. An extreme racist with a drinking problem. He is a man alone, outside of all the worlds he inhabits, and respected only by those who fear him. Boldt is too proud to bow down to the mob and too wicked to be a good cop.Roys brother is the opposite: A seemingly shining light for good and a progressive political candidate. Roy thinks otherwise. He knows his brother too well. But none of that matters when an anonymous threat is handed over to the police. Someone is promising to kill Roys brother when he stops in town while on campaign.What unfolds is Lewiss most nasty and violent novel. Boldt navigates a brutal chain of night clubs, halfway houses, and mobbed-up hotels in order to find those plotting to kill his brother. In the half-light of this lurid underworld he stumbles onto a conspiracy that will put him at odds with just about everything and everyone.

Brian Plender is a glittering evil on par with Patricia Highsmiths Tom Ripley or Jim Thompsons Lou Ford. In Plender the author of Get Carter and GBH delivered a tense and psychologically complex tale of revenge and blackmail that rightfully belongs among crime fictions most chilling ranks. Two men share a common history. Growing up together in the small town of Barton-Upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, England, Peter Knott is everything that Brian Plender wishes he were. Knott is suave, good-looking, an exemplary student and popular. The friendship they maintain is as important to Plender as it is forgettable to Knott, and this eventually leads to a lasting humiliation for Brian. Years later Brian Plender is a dangerous man. A private investigator who specializes in extortion, blackmail, and intimidation, Plender is a manipulative psychopath capable of anything. Knott meanwhile is a man adrift. He is beholden to his wife for money, which he makes taking photographing catalogs for her fathers large mail order company. His wandering eye, array of fetishes, and a taste for younger women, has led Knott through a series of sordid affairs. The two havent met in years so Brian is therefore quite surprised to spot Peter at a seedy bar with a girl too young to be his wife and he decides to follow the pair. Plender relives the humiliations of his youth just as Knott finds himself on the wrong side of the law in the most horrific way imaginable. Starting out as a long-lost friend and slowly, carefully, revealing himself to be anything but that, Brian Plender is a brilliantly macabre invention that readers wont soon forget.

A fascinating window in on life in a British maximum security prison, Billy Ragsby the author of Get Carteris crime fiction at its best: lean, mean, and full of startling psychological depth.Its the 1960s and Billy Cracken is a hard man to keep locked up. An austere and troubled childhood has given way to life as a hardened criminal and now status as one of the most feared prisoners in England. He has been moved from one maximum security prison to the next. Guards and inmates alike fear and begrudgingly respect the powerfully-built Cracken. But a life doing his porridge, even if as a minor celebrity, isnt the one he wants.A girlfriend and a child await Cracken on the outside and hell stop at nothing to get to them. While plotting his escape he crosses a powerful mobster who vows to make Crackens life hell, and if nothing else succeeds at making his escape all the more difficult, something the ever-rebellious Cracken defiantly relishes.The follow-up novel to the wildly successful Get Carter, Billy Rags is a fascinating look into the lives of British inmates serving time in a maximum security prison. Lewis manages once again to tell an exciting, action-filled story with a souldemonstrated most clearly in a series of brilliant flashbacks to Billys childhood and in the end conjures a character that will remind readers of both Tom Hardy in Bronson and Lee Marvin in Point Blank.

With an Afterword by Nick TriplowPublished in North America for the first timethe final novel featuring Jack Carter (Get Carter, Jack Carters Law) has Londons slickest operator journeying to a Spanish villa to protect a wise-cracking Italian-American mobster.Jack Carter is not thrilled when his frustratingly unprofessional employersLondon mob kingpins Gerald and Les Fletcherforce him to take a vacation. Jack doesnt like leaving the business in other peoples hands, but the company villa in Spain promises sunshine and some time to plot his next move. Jack soon finds he is on anything but a vacation. The villa is already inhabited by a cowardly house steward and a knuckle-dragging American gangster. Jack has apparently been sent to protect the American, who has turned informant. There are few things that Jack Carter hates more than surprises. Informants being chief among them.

An English art school Casanova wrestles with his personal demons in this jazzy, sexy and seemingly autobiographical first novel by the author of Get Carter Victor Graves is in his last year at Hull Art School. The handsome pianist for a jazz ensemble that plays the local pub circuit, Victor has a way with words and women, but struggles with personal demonsalcohol chief among themthat increasingly get the better of him. But Victors wildness meets its match in the gorgeous and sensitive Janet, whose hard-to-get routine awakens in Victor a desire to leave-off his rakish ways. But Victors caddish life as top man on campus comes screeching to a halt after graduation, when booze, lack of focus, and deep-seated insecurities slowly get the better of him. Jobless and increasingly alienated from Janet and his friends, Victor lets his misanthropic tendencies grow stronger, until they are unbearable. All the Way Home and All the Night Through is a stirring portrait of a young man inadvertently tearing down himself and those he holds dear.

Famously adapted into the iconic film starring Michael Caine, Get Carteroriginally published as Jacks Return Homeranks among the most canonical of crime novels.With a special Foreword by Mike Hodges, director of Get CarterIts a rainy night in the mill town of Scunthorpe when a London fixer named Jack Carter steps off a northbound train. Hes left the neon lights and mod lifestyle of Soho behind to come north to his hometown for a funeralhis brother Franks. Frank was very drunk when he drove his car off a cliff and that doesnt sit well with Jack. Mild-mannered Frank never touched the stuff.Jack and Frank didnt exactly like one another. They hadnt spoken in years and Jack is far from the sentimental type. So it takes more than a few people by surprise when Jack starts plying his trade in order to get to the bottom of his brothers death. Then again, Franks last name was Carter, and thats Jacks name too. Sometimes thats enough.Set in the late 1960s amidst the smokestacks and hardcases of the industrial north of England, Get Carter redefined British crime fiction and cinema alike. Along with the other two novels in the Jack Carter Trilogy, it is one of the most important crime novels of all time.

With an Introduction by Max Allan CollinsThe author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant London. The late 1960s. Its Christmastime and Jack Carter is the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les Fletcher. Hes also a worried man. The fact that hes sleeping with Geralds wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away together with a lot of the brothers money, doesnt have Jack concerned. Instead its an informantone of his own menthat has him losing sleep. The grass has enough knowledge about the firm to not only bring down Gerald and Les but Jack as well. Jack doesnt like his name in the mouth of that sort. In Jack Carters Law Ted Lewis returned to the character that launched his career and once again delivered a hardboiled masterpiece. Jack Carter is the ideal tour guide to a bygone London underworld. In his quest to dismantle the opposition, he peels back the veneer of English society and offers a hard look at a gritty world of pool halls, strip clubs and the red lights of Soho nightlife.

Es Navidad en Londres, pero Jack Carter, el sicario número uno de los hermanos Fletcher, no está para celebraciones. Uno de los suyos, Jimmy Swann, ha desaparecido, y todo apunta a que ha hecho un trato con la policia. Si Swann llegara a declarar ante un juez, tanto los Fletcher como Carter podrian pasar mas de veinte años a la sombra, y Jack no esta dispuesto a que eso ocurra. Sin apenas margen de tiempo, Carter y otro esbirro de los Fletcher, Con McCarty, peinaran los bajos fondos londinenses en busca de cualquier informacion sobre el paradero de Jimmy Swann. En su periplo por clubs nocturnos, billares, salones de masaje y pubs de mala muerte, hablaran con policias corruptos, abogados y familiares del soplon. Sin embargo, ninguno de ellos parece saber demasiado, y, para empeorar las cosas, unos matones se cruzaran en su camino con la intencion de quitarlos de en medio. Precuela de "Carter", la segunda novela de Ted Lewis protagonizada por el personaje que lo hizo famoso es una combinacion explosiva de realismo descarnado y humor caustico.

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