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Crook Manifesto
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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HIGHLY ANTICIPATED OPRAH DAILY PICK FOR 2023
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.
Critic reviews
'Whether in high literary form or entertaining, page-turner mode, the man is simply incapable of writing a bad book' IAN WILLIAMS, GUARDIAN
'Whitehead has a talent for creating ambiguous, complex scenes that fix in your memory' EVENING STANDARD
'When he moves into a new genre, he keeps the bones but does his own decorating' WASHINGTON POST
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- Keith L
- 30-10-23
Great writing, Excellent narration
I'm a fan of both books, if you like it real, you'll like the Ray Carney story...
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- User
- 16-09-23
Entertaining and moving
A fine sequel to Harlem Shuffle with the city once again one of the main characters.
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- Mrs Camden
- 27-12-23
Enjoyable sequel
Great to see more of the characters from Gsrkrm Shuffle -including NYC in the mid 1970’s
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- HalfRes
- 10-09-23
Superior crime novel
This is an absolute gem. Harlem Shuffle was excellent, but this second novel is maybe even better. A true love letter to Harlem of 1970’s, full of beautifully three-dimensional characters, rendered with edge, wit and charm. Don’t miss it as an audiobook - Dion Graham’s narration adds real flavour to the mix. Deeply hoping there’s more Carney to come.
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- Ivor Williams
- 16-08-23
another amazing novel
Coulson Whitehead has produced another great novel. Gripping from beginning to end. Can't wait to see what he writes next
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- Anonymous User
- 02-08-23
As a huge fan of “Harlem Shuffle” (on audiobook), I can’t believe how astoundingly boring and badly-read this is
Maybe this book works better in print, but this rendition is so badly done, I will work my way through a pile of junk mail selling double-glazing before I try. In terms of character, this doesn’t seem to be the Ray Carney of the previous book, and this time, the voice actor seems to be under direction to get the text read as quickly as possible while throwing in (to my ear) random modulations in tone that don’t really match up to the emotion of the passage being read - perhaps in an effort to distract the listener from realising that the story has all the grip of Teflon.
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