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With an Introduction by Max Allan Collins

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. It’s Christmastime and Jack Carter is the topman in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and LesFletcher. He’s also a worried man. The fact that he’s sleeping withGerald’s wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday running awaytogether with a lot of the brothers’ money, doesn’t have Jack it’s an informant—one of his own men—that has him losing grass has enough knowledge about the firm to not only bring downGerald and Les but Jack as well. Jack doesn’t like his name in the mouthof that sort.

In Jack Carter’s Law Ted Lewisreturned to the character that launched his career and once againdelivered a hardboiled masterpiece. Jack Carter is the ideal tour guideto 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 agritty world of pool halls, strip clubs and the red lights of Sohonightlife.