The Whites

Harry Brandt Bloomsbury,€19.50

Harry Brandt is the new crimewriting alter ego of novelist and screenwriter Richard Price The Whites is a fine book about the corrupted moral universe in which his all-too-believable New York cops have to work. The ‘whites’ are the bad guys that got away scotfree, the ones cops think about in the dead of the night. When cop Billy Graves investigates the murder of one of theses whites, he is confronted by one hard choice after another as matters build to a tense finale.