'' Jack Carter's Law'' is a 1974 British crime novel written by Ted Lewis. It is a prequel to Lewis' best known work, ''

Jack's Return Home ''Jack's Return Home'' is a 1970 novel by British writer Ted Lewis. It was adapted into the 1971 film ''Get Carter'', starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter. The novel portrays a subsection of society living on the borderline between crime and r ...

'' (1970) which was adapted into the film ''

Get Carter ''Get Carter'' is a 1971 British crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detecti ...

'' in 1971. On Christmas Eve, Jack Carter learns that a supergrass is about to inform to the police and put him and his associates away for lengthy prison sentences. Carter attempts to hunt down the informer, but it proves a far more dangerous task than he anticipates.

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Jack Carter British crime novels 1974 British novels Novels by Ted Lewis Michael Joseph books {{1970s-crime-novel-stub