Praise for Get Carter

“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’s Get Carter.”

—Dennis Lehane, author of Live 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 Carter remains 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 of Drive

“The finest British crime novel I’ve ever read.”

—David Peace, author of Red 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 of The Ghosts of Belfast

“The finest British crime novel ever written.”

—John Williams, author of The Cardiff Trilogy