Episode 3: The Double-Crosser
From the Pulitzer-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a new novel set in 1960s Harlem. Today: after a heist and a murder, now a double-crosser...
Set in 1960s Harlem, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys spins a sizzling tale of shakedowns, petty criminals and failed heists.
鈥淩ay Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...鈥�
To his customers on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture. Not many people know he descends from a line of uptown crooks, and that his fa莽ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it.
When his cousin Freddie falls in with a crew who pull off one of Harlem鈥檚 most outrageous heists, Ray is sucked into the big time. Will he succeed in living a good life in a bad world?
Today: after the heist and a murder, Ray now finds in way over his head, as he goes on the hunt for a double-crosser...
Read by Rhashan Stone
Writer: Colson Whitehead is the acclaimed US author of eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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