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The Whites
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
The Whites is the electrifying debut of a new master of American crime fiction, Harry Brandt - the pen name of novelist Richard Price.
Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-'90s, when Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an anticrime unit known as the Wild Geese, he made headlines by accidentally shooting a 10-year-old boy while stopping an angel-dusted berserker in the street. Branded as a cowboy by his higher-ups, for the next 18 years Billy endured one dead-end posting after another. Now in his early 40s, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant on the Manhattan Night Watch, a small team of detectives charged with responding to all nighttime felonies from Wall Street to Harlem.
Night Watch usually acts as a setup crew for the day shift, but when Billy is called to a 4:00 a.m. fatal slashing of a man in Penn Station, his investigation of the crime moves beyond the usual handoff. And when he discovers that the victim was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a 12-year-old boy - a brutal case with connections to the former members of the Wild Geese - the bad old days are back in Billy's life with a vengeance, tearing apart enduring friendships forged in the urban trenches and even threatening the safety of his family.
Richard Price, one of America's most gifted novelists, has always written brilliantly about cops, criminals, and New York City. Now, writing as Harry Brandt, he is poised to win a huge following among all those who hunger for first-rate crime fiction.
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- Judi G
- 04-11-15
gritty and very good
excellent book. written well with great narration. thoroughly enjoyed it. good cop novel.
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- DhobyMick
- 21-12-21
Highly recommended
A terrific book and beautifully read. Highly recommended. Both my wife and I loved it.
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- Catherine
- 11-04-15
A wonderfully morally grey tale of ends and means
This is a wonderful tale of detection, but also of middle age catching up and being so far from the living fast youth of the characters. It's great. The Whites opens in a very 'hardboiled' way, the cynical night shift in the heart of the city. Memories of old cases, of a young and fast detective squad and the unsolved cases " the whites", soon lead to a strong sense of now, second marriages, suburban households and life after the police force. These two moments in time are interwoven as the plot unfolds, linked by these haunting cases, the whites, that won't or can't be left alone. I immediately searched for more 'harry Brandt'. I hope there will be more. At the same time, where can the main character go next? It is so utterly complete.
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- mrs.d
- 24-02-15
Well written
Slick cop with a dilemma - some moving and insightful words from the characters at times. Clever and listenable. X x
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- Colin
- 07-01-20
Puzzling
This is so well written . . . but the story is just so dull and completely forgettable.
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