Crook Manifesto

Resumen del libro

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.

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to Harlem Shuffle

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colson Whiteheadx{0026}lt;/B nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN/Hemingway con su primera novela, x{0026}lt;I La intuicionistax{0026}lt;/I (2000), ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro x{0026}lt;I El coloso de Nueva Yorkx{0026}lt;/I (2005). Fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer con x{0026}lt;I John Henry Daysx{0026}lt;/I (2011), finalista del PEN/Oakland Award con x{0026}lt;I Apex Hides the Hurtx{0026}lt;/I (2006) y del PEN/Faulkner con x{0026}lt;I Sag Harborx{0026}lt;/I (2009). x{0026}lt;I Zona Unox{0026}lt;/I (2012) fue un bestseller para x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , y en 2014 publicó x{0026}lt;I The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky x{0026}amp; Deathx{0026}lt;/I . x{0026}lt;I El ferrocarril subterráneox{0026}lt;/I es su última novela hasta la fecha y ha sido merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2017, del National Book Award 2016, de la Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence y del Indies Choice Book Award de 2017. Colson Whitehead es profesor en las universidades de Columbia y Princeton, y ha recibido las becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.x{0026}lt;/P