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London. The late 1960s. It’s Christmas time and a smooth-operating gangster named Jack Carter is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant
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Ted Lewis returns to the character that launched his career and once again delivers a hardboiled masterpiece. Jack Carter is the ideal tour guide to a bygone London underworld. In his quest to dismantle the opposition, he peels back the veneer of English society and gives us a hard look at a gritty world of pool halls, strip clubs and the red lights of Soho nightlife.

JACK CARTER AND THE MAFIA PIGEON

Published in North America for the first time—the final Jack Carter novel has London’s slickest operator journeying to a Spanish villa to protect a wise-cracking Italian-American mobster
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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 is surprised to find the villa 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 one of them.

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