Background
He was born in Manchester, an only child.
(A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape...)
A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape from prison brings trouble in the form of the police and the private army of an inmate, who now has no chance of escaping thanks to Billy. From the author of JACK'S RETURN HOME (which was later filmed as 'Get Carter').
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006126315X/?tag=2022091-20
(The lost masterwork of British crime icon Ted Lewis—autho...)
The lost masterwork of British crime icon Ted Lewis—author of Get Carter—is an unnerving tale of paranoia and madness in the heart of the late 1970s London criminal underworld. In London, George Fowler heads a lucrative 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 Fowler’s 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 unraveling.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616956461/?tag=2022091-20
(A novel set against the background of the industrial nort...)
A novel set against the background of the industrial north. At school, Peter Knott was the top dog. Seventeen years on, Brian Plender is. When a woman dies in Knott's studio, Plender knows and uses that "little secret".
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0749003901/?tag=2022091-20
( With an Afterword by Nick Triplow Published in North A...)
With an Afterword by Nick Triplow Published in North America for the first time—the final novel featuring Jack Carter (Get Carter, Jack Carter’s Law) has London’s slickest operator journeying to a Spanish villa to protect a wise-cracking Italian-American mobster. Jack 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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616955074/?tag=2022091-20
He was born in Manchester, an only child.
Lewis attended Hull Art School for four years.
After World World War II the family moved to Barton-upon-Humber in 1947. His first work was in London, in advertising, and then as an animation specialist in television and films (among them the Beatles" Yellow Submarine). His first novel, All the Way Home and All the Night Through was published in 1965, followed by Jack"s Return Home, subsequently retitled Get Carter after the success of the film of the same name starring Michael Caine, which created the noir school of British crime writing and pushed Lewis into the best-seller list.
Ted Lewis died in 1982 having published seven more novels and written several episodes for the television series Z-Cars.
Doctor Who Producer Graham Williams who had worked with Lewis on Z-Cars commissioned a script entitled The Doppelgangers in 1978 from Lewis. However, the script was formally rejected on 11 January 1979 and never put into production.
( With an Afterword by Nick Triplow Published in North A...)
(A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape...)
(The lost masterwork of British crime icon Ted Lewis—autho...)
(A novel set against the background of the industrial nort...)