{"product_id":"colson-whitehead-cool-machine-2026","title":"Colson Whitehead: Cool Machine [2026]","description":"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr\u003ewinner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life\u003cbr\u003e1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy\u003cbr\u003e1981. New York C ity is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by\u003cbr\u003erampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory\u003cbr\u003ecapitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner\/master fence Ray C arney has just\u003cbr\u003ebeen named Sterling Furniture''s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won''t give his\u003cbr\u003ebeloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, C arney gambles on\u003cbr\u003eone last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.\u003cbr\u003e1983. To some, C arney''s friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To\u003cbr\u003eothers, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he''s feeling his age in his\u003cbr\u003etroubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth, he''s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene.\u003cbr\u003eLuckily for him, whether you''re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of\u003cbr\u003eviolence - Pepper is a native speaker.\u003cbr\u003e1986. C arney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now,\u003cbr\u003etwenty years after Freddie''s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie''s son from the\u003cbr\u003eviolent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again\u003cbr\u003ewill mean risking the safety and security he''s spent decades building for his family, with\u003cbr\u003eonly one shot to get it right.\u003cbr\u003eWith his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where\u003cbr\u003eshimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned\u003cbr\u003etunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over\u003cbr\u003ethe city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the\u003cbr\u003elives of Whitehead''s vivid characters, it''s what''s below the surface that reveals the truth.","brand":"Whitehead, Colson","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52203086774611,"sku":"9780349727684","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/whitehead-colson-colson-whitehead-cool-machine-2026-9780349727684-1199496959.jpg?v=1761325284","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/colson-whitehead-cool-machine-2026","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}