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The Whites

A Novel

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  • 352 páginas
  • 13 horas de lectura

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<b>“A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as <i>Clockers</i> and <i>Lush Life</i> . . . [<i>The Whites</i> has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, in its brilliant characterizations, rich detail, endless surprises, crackling dialogue, [and] absurdist humor.” —<i>The Washington Post</i></b> Back in the 1990s, when Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese, he made headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while stopping an angel-dusted berserker in the street. Branded as a cowboy, Billy spent years in one dead-end posting after another. Now in his early forties, he is a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch, a team of detectives that responds to all felonies from Wall Street to Harlem between one a.m. and eight a.m. Billy’s work is mostly routine, but when Night Watch is called to the four a.m. fatal slashing 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 an unsolved murder—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.

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The Whites, Richard Price, Harry Brandt

Idioma
Publicado en
2016
Encuadernación
(Tapa blanda),
Estado del libro
Bueno
Precio
7,39 €

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Título
The Whites
Subtítulo
A Novel
Idioma
Inglés
Publicado en
2016
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
352
ISBN10
0312621302
ISBN13
9780312621308
Serie
Descripción
<b>“A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as <i>Clockers</i> and <i>Lush Life</i> . . . [<i>The Whites</i> has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, in its brilliant characterizations, rich detail, endless surprises, crackling dialogue, [and] absurdist humor.” —<i>The Washington Post</i></b> Back in the 1990s, when Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese, he made headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while stopping an angel-dusted berserker in the street. Branded as a cowboy, Billy spent years in one dead-end posting after another. Now in his early forties, he is a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch, a team of detectives that responds to all felonies from Wall Street to Harlem between one a.m. and eight a.m. Billy’s work is mostly routine, but when Night Watch is called to the four a.m. fatal slashing 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 an unsolved murder—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.