num_pages: 333
description: The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder by his own dark past and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese he made headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while struggling with an angel-dusted berserker on a crowded street. Branded as a loose cannon by his higher-ups Billy spent years enduring one dead-end posting after another. Now in his early forties he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch a small team of detectives charged with responding to all post-midnight felonies from Wall Street to Harlem. Mostly his unit acts as little more than a set-up crew for the incoming shift but after years in police purgatory Billy is content simply to do his job.Then comes a call that changes everything: Night Watch is summoned to the four a.m. fatal slashing of a man in Penn Station and this time Billy's investigation moves beyond the usual handoff to the day tour. And when he discovers that the victim was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a twelve-year-old boy-a savage 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.Razor-sharp and propulsively written The Whites introduces Harry Brandt-a new master of American crime fiction.
language: English
title: The Whites
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.