{"product_id":"jack-carters-law-isbn-9781616955052","title":"Jack Carter's Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Max Allan Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eGet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e London. The late 1960s. It's Christmastime and Jack Carter is the top  man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les  Fletcher. He’s also a worried man. The fact that he’s sleeping with  Gerald’s wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away  together with a lot of the brothers’ money, doesn’t have Jack concerned.  Instead it’s 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 doesn’t like his name in the mouth  of that sort. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJack Carter’s Law\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eJack Carter's Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\"\u003ci\u003eJack Carter’s Law\u003c\/i\u003e is even tougher and more uncompromising than its famous predecessor.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Max Alan Collins, author of \u003ci\u003eRoad to Perdition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\"Bleaker and wittier than the just about anything in the great Richard Stark's bleak and witty Parker novels. And it has the style that modern-day makers of gangster movies such as Guy Ritchie can only dream about.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Detectives Beyond Borders\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\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The craftsmanship at play here is staggering. There’s a reason why Ted Lewis is cited as a major influence on many writers in the crime and hard-boiled scene.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—My Bookish Ways\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Ted Lewis\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An example of how  dangerous writing can really be when it is done properly . . . 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“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\u003eTed 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, author of the Cardiff Trilogy\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 is the author of 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":46301889298661,"sku":"NP9781616955052","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781616955052.jpg?v=1767730305","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jack-carters-law-isbn-9781616955052","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}