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The Whites a novel

"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in the South Bronx known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding...

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Main Author: Brandt, Harry, 1949- (Author)
Other Authors: Price, Richard, 1949-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
New York (N.Y.). > Police Department > Fiction.
Police > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > New York.
Summary: "Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in the South Bronx known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a 4:00 a.m. call about the fatal knifing of a man in Penn Station, his investigation moves beyond the usual handoff to the day shift. And when he discovers that the victim was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a 12-year-old boy, he finds himself drawn back to the mid-1990s when the Wild Geese were at their most wayward."-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: 333 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN: 0805093990 (hbk.)
9780805093995 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Author and screenwriter Richard Price was born in the Bronx, New York on October 12, 1949. He received a BS degree from Cornell University, an MFA from Columbia University, and a Mirillees Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His first novel, The Wanderers, was published in 1974 and was adapted into a film by director Philip Kaufman in 1979. His novel Clockers was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie by Spike Lee in 1994.

His screenwriting credits include The Color of Money (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Mad Dog and Glory (1992), and Ransom (1996). Price won several awards for his writing on the television series The Wire. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, the Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1999, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

In 2015, Price published his bestselling novel, The Whites, under the pseudonym Harry Brandt.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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