Apples Carstairs · Book 2
The Big Black
- Published
- 1 January 1974
- Pages
- 155
- ISBN-13
- 9780903925150
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Big Black followed the same year, 1974, a slightly shorter 155-page entry in the same pulpy, fast-turnaround caper tradition Follett was writing his way through before his historical-thriller fame.
Its place in Apples Carstairs
The Big Black is book 2 in the Apples Carstairs series. It follows The Big Needle. See the full Apples Carstairs reading order.
Before Eye of the Needle made him famous, Ken Follett wrote a trio of paperback crime capers under the pen name Simon (also spelled Symon) Myles, following Apples Carstairs, a small-time London crook and con artist who gets pulled into schemes well above his usual league. The books belong to the pulpy, fast-turnaround caper-thriller tradition Follett was writing his way through in the mid-1970s while working as a newspaper reporter and journeyman genre novelist -- lean, plot-first books written for quick…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780903925150