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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 ...
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.
Media
“A Washington Post 2015 Book of the Year.”
“Lewis’s final novel, GBH, is quite simply a noir masterpiece, a stunningly-written case study in the importance of structure and style.”
–Deadly Diversions, Best Books of 2015
“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
“Ted Lewis wrote brilliantly about ruthless men clinging to their humanity with mordant wit and misguided but powerful senses of honor. That these quintessentially British novels are finally available in the US is real cause for celebration.”
–Scott Phillips
“He is an example of how dangerous writing can really be when it is done properly, and Ted Lewis’s writing proves that he never ran away from the page. Because with Lewis, the page was the battle.”
—Derek Raymond, author of He Died with His Eyes Open
“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
“Praise for Ted Lewis”
“Lewis is universally recognized as the author of the book on which the classic movie Get Carter was based, but he was more than a one-book author. Seize the opportunity to read this prime example of Brit Grit that present-day practitioners such as J.J. Connelly and Jake Arnott have imitated but never bettered. ”
–Library Journal, Starred Review on GBH
“Lewis gives new meaning to suspense with this masterly tale of a man’s downfall and the bloody trail he leaves behind.”
–Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review on GBH
“If well written, unapologetic, hard boiled crime fiction with a very dark edge is your thing this book is definitely worth your time. ”
–Pulp Curry on GBH
“While [Get Carter] will likely always be the most noted of Ted Lewis’s nine novels, GBH, the final book Lewis published, is his masterwork. ”
–The Life Sentence
“Lewis remains a sharp social anatomist of the hopelessness and soul-sucking dinginess of his era. Starting with [Get Carter], Lewis sketched the horror of a Britain where home was the kitchen sink, the sodden bar towel, the decrepit industrial landscape. ”
–Barnes & Noble Review on Ted Lewis
“His final novel and masterpiece ... You won’t find many nice guys upon these pages. ”
–Dayton Daily-News on GBH
“A pulp-fiction triumph worthy of Jim Thompson or James Ellroy. I can't remember the last time I turned pages so eagerly ... his work cuts to the bone, both literally and metaphysically. ”
–John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air on GBH
“GBH shows Lewis stayed true to his unnerving vision and voice to the end, even while pushing it into farther-out places. This hitherto-obscure book’s resurrection should further enhance the Lewis legend. ”
–Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
“One of the most coldly brilliant crime novels you will ever read ... a mesmerizing story of power, love, hubris and betrayal — but, above all, the portrait of what one might call a tragic villain ... Complicated in plot, propulsive in its narrative pace, beautifully structured, it is a book you’ll want to read. ”