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"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture to his customers and neighbors on 125th street, making a decent living for himself and his family. His wife Elizabeth and he are expecting their second child, and even if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.

Few people realize he comes from a long line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his veneer of normalcy has more than a few flaws. Cracks that continue to grow in size.

Ray doesn't ask where his cousin Freddie gets his rings and necklaces because money is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who also does not ask questions.

Then Freddie joins a gang planning to rob the Hotel Theresa, the "Waldorf of Harlem" and offers Ray's services as a fence. The heist does not go as planned; they almost never do. Ray now has a new clientele, which includes shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other Harlem lowlifes.

Thus the internal struggle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook begins. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who really controls Harlem. Can Ray avoid being killed, save his cousin, and take his cut of the big score while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs?

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