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Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

Every bank in New York turns down Ray Carney's wife for a loan, so the furniture man goes back to fencing. The last Harlem Trilogy novel runs from 1981 to 1986 and asks one question over and over: what do you value enough to steal for?

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

A furniture dealer four years out of the crooked life needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter, and the only man who can get them is a corrupt detective with a subpoena and nothing left to lose. Whitehead's 1970s Harlem novel is angrier and funnier than the first.

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

A furniture salesman with a business degree, a signed photo of Lena Horne, and a cousin who cannot stop volunteering him for robberies. Whitehead's Harlem novel is a heist story, a social history and a very funny book about the price of respectability.

Scion by James Islington

James Islington takes a holiday from epic fantasy and comes back with a lean, funny, genuinely nasty cyberpunk thriller about a contract killer who has been engineered not to care. Fast, inventive, and over far too quickly.

The French Illusion by John Grisham

Two American newlyweds are lifted off a Normandy road on the fifth day of their honeymoon. Both families pay two million dollars. Only the bride comes home. Grisham's fortieth novel has no courtroom, no lawyer-hero and no verdict, and it is angrier than anything he has written in a decade.

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