{"product_id":"crook-manifesto-fast-fun-ribald-sunday-times-the-harlem-trilogy-book-2","title":"Crook Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe thrilling and entertaining sequel to \u003cem\u003eHarlem Shuffle.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. \u003cem\u003eCrook Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003eis a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a portrait of how families work in the face of chaos and hostility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colson Whitehead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000226308143,"sku":"9780349727653","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780349727653.jpg?v=1772366200","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/crook-manifesto-fast-fun-ribald-sunday-times-the-harlem-trilogy-book-2","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}