{"product_id":"cool-machine-a-novel","title":"Cool Machine: A Novel [PRE-ORDER 07\/21]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOT YET AVAILABLE. Pre-order now. This title is scheduled to arrive on July 21, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: release dates and prices are tentative and subject to change at the publisher's whim.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen pre-ordering with multiple items, remember your order will not ship until the last pre-ordered item is in stock. If you want items to ship separately, place separate orders.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom #1 New York Times bestselling 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\/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, Cool Machine 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\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colson Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Harlem Trilogy Book 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Doubleday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.25 x 9.25 x 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes: \u003c\/strong\u003ehardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eJuly 21, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-0385550505\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47506861555968,"sku":"9780385550505","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/coolmachinehc.jpg?v=1766973002","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/cool-machine-a-novel","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}