![]() Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. The heist doesn’t go as planned they rarely do. ![]() Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa – the “Waldorf of Harlem” – and volunteers Ray’s services as the fence. ![]() He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn’t ask questions, either. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn’t ask where it comes from. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it’s still home.įew people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. ![]() “Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked….” To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. Harlem Shuffleīuy Now: įrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. Check out this new novel about race, power and history. ![]()
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