Get Carter
Praise forGet Carter"It arrived in the post, out of the blue, along with an offer to write and direct it as my first cinema film. Its literary style was as enigmatic as the manner of its arrival. Whilst set in England and written by an Englishman it was (aside from the rain) atypically English. More importantly it ripped off the rose-tinted glasses through which most people saw our mutual homeland. I suspect Ted never shared that Panglossian take on England."—Mike Hodges, director ofGet Carter, from the Foreword to this edition"Aristotle, when he defined tragedy, mandated that a tragic hero must fall from a great height, but Aristotle never imagined the kind of roadside motels James M. Cain could conjure up or saw the smokestacks rise in the Northern English industrial hell of Ted Lewis'sGet Carter."—Dennis Lehane, author ofLive by Night"Lewis was one of the first British writers in the sixties to take Chandler literally—"The crime story tips violence out of its vase on the shelf and pours it back into the street where it belongs"—and [Get Carter] is a book that I and plenty of other people at the time considered to be a classic on these grounds."—Derek Raymond, author of the Factory Novels"Get Carterremains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a  man stumbling along the hard edge—toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts  to the bone."—James Sallis, author ofDrive“The finest British crime novel I’ve ever read.”—David Peace, author ofRed or Dead"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."—Stuart Neville, author ofThe Ghosts of Belfast“Lewis is major.”—Max Alan Collins, author ofRoad to Perdition"The finest British crime novel ever written."—John Williams, author of The Cardiff Trilogy--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.