{"product_id":"crook-manifesto-2","title":"Crook Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eA masterpiece' \u003ci\u003ePEOPLE MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Funny, effortlessly streetwise, and criminally pleasurable to read it's also politically enlightening and quietly incendiary' \u003ci\u003e BIG ISSUE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53792562905426,"sku":"9780349727653","price":19.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_9d7afced-51a9-436c-b1b4-a4054b1c2497.jpg?v=1781821779","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/crook-manifesto-2","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}