Cotton Comes to Harlem
, by HIMES, CHESTERNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780394759999 | 0394759990
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/28/1988
Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection--for his own private charity. But the take ($87,000) is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. With Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones on everyone's trail and piecing together the complexity of the scheme,Cotton Comes to Harlemis one of Himes's hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.