TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,Colson
TI  - Crook manifesto
T2  - Harlem saga
SN  - 9780349727653
U1  - 813.6 23/eng/20230731
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Fleet
KW  - Urban African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Arson
KW  - Receiving stolen goods
KW  - Theft
KW  - White privilege (Social structure)
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Racism
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - 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
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