{"product_id":"jack-carter-and-the-mafia-pigeon-isbn-9781616955076","title":"Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Afterword by Nick Triplow\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished in North America for the first time—the final novel featuring Jack Carter (\u003ci\u003eGet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJack Carter’s Law\u003c\/i\u003e) has London’s slickest operator journeying to a Spanish villa to protect a wise-cracking Italian-American mobster.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJack Carter is not thrilled when his frustratingly unprofessional employers—London mob kingpins Gerald and Les Fletcher—force him to take a vacation. Jack doesn’t like leaving the business in other people’s 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.\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Ted Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\"Carter is no hero, killing rival villains without compunction,   manipulating one and all (male or female) to his advantage. But he does   have a darkly contagious sense of humor, and his observing eye is keen   and mean, as always.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tom Nolan, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"At  his best, [Lewis] achieves something only a handful of crime writers  ever  do — the chilling sense of cosmic fatality that links noir  anti-heroes  to the likes of Oedipus and Macbeth.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—NPR's Fresh Air\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He is an example of how dangerous writing can really be when it is done properly, and Ted Lewis’s writing proves that he never ran away from the page. Because with Lewis, the page was the battle.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Derek Raymond, author of \u003ci\u003eHe Died with His Eyes Open\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lewis remains a sharp social anatomist of the hopelessness and soul-sucking dinginess of his era. Starting with [\u003ci\u003eGet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e Lewis sketched the horror of a Britain where home was the kitchen sink, the sodden bar towel, the decrepit industrial landscape: a kingdom from which Carter and his like cannot escape.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Barnes and Noble Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ted Lewis is one of the most influential crime novelists Britain has ever produced, and his shadow falls on all noir fiction, whether on page or screen, created on these isles since his passing. I wouldn’t be the writer I am without Ted Lewis. It’s time the world rediscovered him.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stuart Neville, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghosts of Belfast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lewis is major.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Max Alan Collins, author of \u003ci\u003eRoad to Perdition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ted Lewis cuts  to the bone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJames Sallis, author of \u003ci\u003eDrive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When it comes to dealing with your actual hard man, no one does it better than the late, great Ted Lewis.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—John Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rereading all three books, I was struck by the influence Lewis' novels   have had on so many current hard-boiled writers whose main characters   are hard cases (certainly Lee Child's Jack Reacher is a literary son).   Written in first person and present tense, Lewis' trilogy has an   immediacy that belies its age.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Carole Barrowman\u003ci\u003e, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The year's big event in international noir  is the republication of the  Jack Carter Trilogy by England's Ted Lewis.  Few crime writers could  inject menace and desperation into small talk  the way Lewis did, and he  had a fine eye for period detail.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Manchester, England, Ted Lewis (1940-1982) spent most of his  youth in Barton-upon-Humber in the north of England. After graduating  from Hull Art School, Lewis moved to London and first worked in  advertising before becoming an animation specialist, working on the  Beatles’ \u003ci\u003eYellow Submarine\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels are the product of his  lifelong fascination with the criminal lifestyle of London’s Soho  district and the down-and-out lifestyle of the English factory town.  Lewis' novels pioneered the British noir school. He authored nine  novels, the second of which was famously adapted in 1971 as the now  iconic \u003ci\u003eGet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e, which stars Michael Caine.","brand":"Soho Syndicate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301203038437,"sku":"NP9781616955076","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781616955076.jpg?v=1767730303","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jack-carter-and-the-mafia-pigeon-isbn-9781616955076","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}