

Wants to escape the criminal legacy of his father, “to disavow the crooked Ray’s father was a hoodlum and, though Ray Repeated refrain is “’I didn’t mean to get you in trouble,’” he pulls Rayįurther into criminal activities which bring him into contact with corrupt copsĪnd local crime lords and place him in dangerous situations. He wants the reputation of an honest purveyor of home furnishings, he doesĪccept goods and jewelry of unknown provenance from his hapless cousin Freddie, Self-made man who owns a furniture store in Harlem, “was only slightly bent Its three sections, set in 1959, 1961 andġ964, have the protagonist becoming more and more involved in the criminal

Full of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs is set in Harlem.
