A furniture salesman keeps getting pulled into the criminal underworld of 50s and 60s Harlem.

It's part heist, part revenge plot and part social satire, filled with characters who don't usually get the spotlight in crime books, like the fence, the ageing muscle, and the crooked banker.

Note to you, dear listener: after reading this book, we decided do an episode on its sequel, Crook Manifesto. Stay tuned for that.