From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and
entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle 1971 - Trash is piled on the streets crime is at a
record high and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out
between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney furniture-store owner and ex fence
is trying to keep his head down his business up and his life on the straight and narrow. His
only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May so what harm could it do to hit
up Munson his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly staying out of the
game becomes more complicated - and deadly. When one of Ray's tenants is badly injured in a
fire he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started leading the duo to
battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady the violent and the utterly
corrupt. In 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. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem and a searching portrait of how
families work in the face of indifference chaos and hostility.
