Jack's Return Home

Jack's Return Home

First edition
Author	Ted Lewis
Language	English
Genre	Thriller, Crime novel
Publisher	Michael Joseph
Publication date	9 February 1970
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	224 pp
ISBN	0-7181-0730-6 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-948164-06-9 (paperback edition)
OCLC	82810
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ4.L676 Jac PR6062.E955
Followed by	Jack Carter's Law

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 respectability. The book was a major influence on the noir school of English crime fiction.

The novel was republished in 1971 by Pan in paperback as a film tie-in under the title Carter, featuring stills from the movie Get Carter ^[1] on the cover. The novel went out of print for many years and slipped into obscurity, until – in the 1990s – there was a resurgence in the popularity of the film, which in turn generated fresh interest in the book. The book was republished in paperback under the title Get Carter by Allison & Busby in 1993.

In 2012, the novel was adapted as a radio serial^[2] by Nick Perry and broadcast under its original title on BBC Radio 4, starring Hugo Speer as Jack Carter.

In 2016, the playwright Torben Betts adapted the novel for a critically acclaimed production by Newcastle's Northern Stage.