{"product_id":"cool-machine-the-harlem-trilogy-preorder","title":"Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy) - PREORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePub Date: July 21, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his recurring characters grapple with the ways their lives are defined by crime and the city they call home. . . . The heists, stakeouts, and showdowns are rendered with grit and precision, but the real wallops come in breathtaking riffs on the city's magnetic force. . . . It's the greatest New York novel in years.\" \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1981. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1983. 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 territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence--Pepper is a native speaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, \u003ci\u003eCool Machine\u003c\/i\u003e roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColson Whitehead is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of twelve works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad, \u003c\/i\u003e which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colson Whitehead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865731268893,"sku":"9780385550505","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780385550505.jpg?v=1781205797","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/cool-machine-the-harlem-trilogy-preorder","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}