Ted Lewis wrote British crime fiction that helped define the hard, unsentimental form later associated with British noir. Jack's Return Home, filmed as Get Carter, follows London enforcer Jack Carter travelling north after his brother's death and refusing to accept the official explanation, pulling him into a local network of pornography, corruption and revenge. GBH alternates between the height of a criminal boss's power and a later period of isolation on the coast, gradually revealing how one became the other. Plender turns blackmail and an old school connection into another study of coercion and social resentment. Lewis's prose is lean, violent and stripped of heroic glamour. His work fits British noir, gangster fiction and revenge thrillers, particularly for readers interested in the roots of modern UK crime writing. Read more Less
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