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.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349727646Number of pages: 336Weight: 560 gDimensions: 236 x 164 x 36 mm
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'Whether in high literary form or entertaining,page-turner mode,the man is simply incapable of writing a bad book.'- Ian Williams,The Guardian
Colson Whitehead
One of America's most exciting and original novelists and essayists,multi-award winning author Colson Whitehead is best-known for his 2016,Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Underground Railroad. His other works include John Henry Days,Apex Hides the Hurt,Zone One and non-fiction works The Colossus of New York and The Noble Hustle: Poker,Beef Jerky & Death. His latest novel,The Nickel Boys, will be published in July 2019.
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