Cotton Comes to Harlem
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‘A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest’ The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O’Malley’s been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds – and send one man’s brain matter flying – the con is up. Now Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed mean to bring the good people of Harlem back their $87,000, however many corpses they have to climb over to get it.Cotton Comes to Harlem is a non-stop ride, with violence, sex, double-crosses, and the two baddest detectives ever to wear a badge in Harlem.With an Introduction by Will Self

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Weight 0.179 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2021-3-25
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241521092
About The Author

Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.

The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler.
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A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest.
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