Ray Carney doesn't want to know anything more about crooked business. He stays out of the daily chaos of New York, where gangsters engage in gunfights and the Black Liberation Army calls for armed struggle. If it weren't for his daughter May with the almost unfulfillable wish for a ticket to the Jackson Five concert. Ray has to activate his old network - at the risk of getting himself entangled again. When entire apartment blocks go up in flames in Harlem, he hires Pepper, who knows the rules of the game like no other, to ensure justice. Whitehead's terrific entertaining novel about black New York in the wild seventies is a great portrait of American morals. Biography Colson Whitehead, born in New York in 1969, studied at Harvard University and worked for the magazines Vibe, Spin and New York Newsday and as a television critic for "The Village Voice". He was awarded the National Book Award in 2016 for his novel The Underground Railroad and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017, as well as the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; in 2020 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again for The Nickel Boys, which had only happened to three writers before him in the more than 100-year history of the prize. New goods