As Colson Whitehead did in “Harlem Shuffle,” the author mixes noir crime tropes and social history to present a slant, cynical view of New York as a thoroughly rotten Big Apple, only occasionally redeemed by individual acts of love, loyalty and kindness, in the sequel “Crook Manifesto.”
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