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From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle
1971 – Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated – and deadly. When one of Ray’s tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.
In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.
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From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle
1971 – Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated – and deadly. When one of Ray’s tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.
In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.
About Author
Colson Whitehead is a
multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel
Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The
Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of
essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and
Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the
National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke
Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was
longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a
second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for
Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been
adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy
Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 221. He lives with
his family in New York City.
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