{"product_id":"crook-manifesto-9780349727653b","title":"Crook Manifesto","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY OPRAH DAILY, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTIME\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNPR\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eESSENCE \u003c\/span\u003eAND MORE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eHarlem Shuffle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1971, New York City. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1973. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1976. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCrook Manifesto\u003c\/span\u003e is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of chaos and hostility.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'Whether in high literary form or entertaining, page-turner mode, the man is simply incapable of writing a bad book' IAN WILLIAMS, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCrook Manifesto\u003c\/span\u003e gave me something I had missed in recent reading: joy' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'When he moves into a new genre, he keeps the bones but does his own decorating' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece'\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e PEOPLE MAGAZINE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fleet Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824159526992,"sku":"9780349727653B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780349727653-l.jpg?v=1785895456","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/crook-manifesto-9780349727653b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}