Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Dion Graham
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Historical Fiction
Its 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. Its strictly the straight-and-narrow for himuntil he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicatedand deadly., 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carneys endearingly violent partner in crime. Its getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on
