{"product_id":"crook-manifesto-by-colson-whitehead-9780349727653","title":"Crook Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY OPRAH DAILY, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME, NPR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ESSENCE AND MORE\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Whether in high literary form or entertaining, page-turner mode, the man is simply incapable of writing a bad book' IAN WILLIAMS, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrook Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e gave me something I had missed in recent reading: joy' \u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'When he moves into a new genre, he keeps the bones but does his own decorating' \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece' \u003ci\u003ePEOPLE MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to \u003ci\u003eHarlem Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1971, New York City.\u003c\/b\u003e Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is going bankrupt, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney is trying to keep his head down, his business up and his life straight. But then he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up an old police contact, who wants favours in return. For Ray, staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated - and deadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1973.\u003c\/b\u003e The old ways are being overthrown by the thriving counterculture, but Pepper, Carney's enduringly violent partner in crime, is a constant. In these difficult times, Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem, finding himself in a world of Hollywood stars and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook - to their regret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1976.\u003c\/b\u003e Harlem is burning, while the country gears up for the Bicentennial. Carney is trying to come up with a celebratory July 4th advertisement he can actually live with, while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire seriously injures one of Carney's tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it, navigating a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eCrook Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of chaos and hostility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A dazzling treatise... gleefully detonates its satire upon this world while getting to the heart of the place and its people' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFunny, effortlessly streetwise, and criminally pleasing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711169220844,"sku":"9780349727653","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13730053482312.jpg?v=1754196788","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/crook-manifesto-by-colson-whitehead-9780349727653","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}