Cool Machine: by the two-time Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad (The Harlem Trilogy)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life. 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 Furniture's Dealer of the Month.When the banks won't 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, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath.To others, a top thief with questionable people skills.Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones.When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien ter