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Cool Machine : A Novel.
LAST BOOK IN SERIES: CROOK MANIFESTO 9780385694025From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life the glittering and monstrous city of New York in the 1980s in the magnificent final volume in his Harlem Trilogy.
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- ISBN: 9780385698566
- Physical Description: 368 pages ; 2 x 15 cm.
- Publisher: United States : Doubleday, 2026.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy
1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furnitureâs Dealer of the Month. When the banks wonât give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.
1983. To some, Carneyâs friend and partner in crime, Pepper, is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, heâs feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, heâs plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether youâre uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violenceâPepper is a native speaker.
1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddieâs death, he has a chance to rescue Freddieâs son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security heâs spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.
With his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whiteheadâs vivid characters, itâs whatâs below the surface that reveals the truth.
