NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
Colson Whitehead\'s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time..
Crook Manifesto is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family.
Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted.
When a fire severely injures one of Carney\'s tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. (Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.
A and rising politician Alexander Oakes.
Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with.
Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. 1976.
These adversaries underestimate the seasoned Crook - to their regret.
He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men.
It\'s getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem.
The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney\'s endearingly violent partner in crime. 1973.
But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated - and deadly.
It\'s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him -- until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire.
His days moving stolen goods around the city are over.
Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving.
Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army.
It\'s 1971.
Dazzling -Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory
