7 best-selling thriller books like Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon by Ted Lewis

Cover of Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon by Ted Lewis

Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

By: Ted Lewis

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The final novel featuring Jack Carter (Get Carter, Jack Carter’s Law) has London’s slickest operato…

If you liked the thriller plot in Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon by Ted Lewis , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22) by Rex Stout, Linda Barnes

1. The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22)

By: Rex Stout , Linda Barnes

4.10

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy clients and extravagant fees as for his genius at d… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • crime
  • fiction
"The sight of a pretty girl provokes in him an overwhelming reaction of appreciation and approval, and correlatively his acquisitive instinct, but he has never married. Why not? Because he knows that …"

-Rex Stout, The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22)

Cover of The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2) by Rex Stout, Robert Goldsborough

2. The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)

By: Rex Stout , Robert Goldsborough

4.08

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

There's nothing better than the summary from the back cover of 'The League of Frightened Men.' '… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • crime
  • fiction
"To assert dignity is to lose it."

-Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)

Cover of Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin

3. Fevre Dream

By: George R.R. Martin

3.89

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more

Similar categories in George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • fiction
"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

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4. Turning Blue

By: Benjamin Myers

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

"Benjamin Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning Blue, he has created a whole … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Turning Blue book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Watchman (Elvis Cole, #11; Joe Pike, #1) by Robert Crais

5. The Watchman (Elvis Cole, #11; Joe Pike, #1)

By: Robert Crais

4.33

Format: 260 pages,

To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heir… read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's The Watchman (Elvis Cole, #11; Joe Pike, #1) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, David Lodge

6. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

Similar categories in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • fiction

7. Hot Milk

By: Deborah Levy

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Hot Milk book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • fiction

8. If This Is a Man / The Truce

By: Primo Levi , Stuart J. Woolf , Paul Bailey

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, d… read more

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9. Swimming Home

By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more

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Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John Le Carré

10. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

11. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

Similar categories in Caimh McDonnell's A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

12. An Experiment in Love

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

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13. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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14. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

Similar categories in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

15. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

16. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Illuminations: Stories by Alan             Moore

17. Illuminations: Stories

By: Alan Moore

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se… read more

Similar categories in Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • fiction
"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of comp…"

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

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18. The Long Knives

By: Irvine Welsh

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's The Long Knives book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

Cover of Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon by Ted Lewis

19. Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

By: Ted Lewis

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The final novel featuring Jack Carter (Get Carter, Jack Carter’s Law) has London’s slickest operato… read more

Similar categories in Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of California Fever: A Novel by John J. Jacobson

20. California Fever: A Novel

By: John J. Jacobson

3.26

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

SoCal surfer Dolphin Smoote just wanted to earn quick dough for a date with the brown-eyed beauty …… read more

Similar categories in John J. Jacobson's California Fever: A Novel book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • fiction
Cover of These Darkening Days (Mace & Brindle, #2) by Benjamin Myers

21. These Darkening Days (Mace & Brindle, #2)

By: Benjamin Myers

3.93

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

As autumn draws in, a Pennine valley town famed for its alternative lifestyles is shocked to its co… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's These Darkening Days (Mace & Brindle, #2) book and Ted Lewis's Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon

  • crime
  • fiction

15 Top fiction books like Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon by Ted Lewis

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The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22)

Rex Stout , Linda Barnes

4.10

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The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)

Rex Stout , Robert Goldsborough

4.08

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Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin

3.89

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Turning Blue

Benjamin Myers

4.26

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Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

Robert Aickman

4.40

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Cuore nero

Silvia Avallone

4.25

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