Ted Lewis

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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

George Fowler es el líder de una lucrativa organización criminal londinense especializada en la producción y distribución de películas pornográficas. Aunque dirige el negocio con mano de hierro, alguien de la organizacion se la esta jugando y Fowler no es

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