![]() The fallout sends Carney spiraling through Harlem's criminal underworld, where he learns just who pulls the levers of power in New York City, and comes to a reckoning with his double life as a striver and a crook. Before too long, Carney is wrapped up in Freddie's risky caper to rob the Hotel Theresa, also known as “the Waldorf of Harlem," but the heist doesn't go as planned. The son of a notorious small-time crook, Carney has worked hard to become an upstanding member of his Harlem community, but despite his best efforts, Carney is still "slightly bent" when it comes to being "crooked." Carney's upwardly mobile dream of moving to Riverside Drive is expensive, so when his ne'er-do-well cousin Freddie slips him a necklace or ring of questionable provenance, he doesn't ask questions-he just fences the goods through a discreet downtown jeweler. ![]() ![]() In this noirish crime caper, it’s 1959, and used furniture salesman Ray Carney is expecting a second child with his wife. These wayward nights are the bread and butter of Harlem Shuffle, a dazzling trip back in time from a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who never stops reinventing himself.
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