The Whites: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• "The Whites is the crime novel of the year—grim, gutsy, and impossible to put down…Call him Price or Brandt, he knows everything about police life, and plenty about friendship: what your friends do for you…and what they sometimes do to you.”

  — Stephen King

• “This is high-octane literature…The Whites manages to patrol New York and deepen our sense of the city and all its dark corners.”

  — Colum McCann, New York Times bestselling author of Transatlantic

• “Riveting…No one these days writes with more kinetic energy or more hard-boiled verve…A gripping police procedural and an affecting study in character and fate.”

  — New York Times

• “The Whites is especially good at capturing New York City’s peculiar brand of violent crime.”

  — Newsday

• “The Whites is full of the rich characters, spot-on dialogue, grim humor, and distinctive insights….Price is a New York writer to the core; the raw power of this great city seeps into the lives of his characters as they struggle with grief, betrayal, and shame.”

  — Houston Chronicle

• “Price enriches this story of a half-feral band of cops bonded by vengeance with depth, melancholy, and those famously keen eyes and ears.”

  — New York magazine

• “A gripping, gritty, Greek tragedy of cops, killers, and the sometimes blurry line between them…Price is one whale of a storyteller by any name…The author skillfully manipulates [his] multiple story lines for peak suspense, as his arresting characters careen toward a devastating final reckoning.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “This is going to be a strong contender for best crime novel of 2015…With one-of-a-kind characters and settings so real you can smell them, Brandt plunges us into the chaos of domestic life, the true agony of a parent’s grief, the cost of secrets kept and revealed. He does it all with indelible phrasing that captures both the black humor of the on-the-job cop and the give-and-take of longtime married couples…The Whites isn’t about cops and killers so much as it is about the damage we all carry [and] the sins we’ve all committed.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Richard Price isn’t fooling anybody with this Harry Brandt business; only he could have written The Whites. It has everything that makes his novels so wonderful—the dark humor, the intricate interleaving of character and plot, the deep research into the science of the streets, the moral gravity and the flawless, magical dialogue. Indeed the only credible thing to be said about Harry Brandt is that he has written one of Richard Price’s best books yet.

  — Michael Chabon

• This is high-octane literature, with the best of Richard Price and his souped-up pseudonym Harry Brandt. Price/Brandt gets to the heart of those stories that everyone else refuses to tell. The Whites manages to patrol New York and deepen our sense of the city and all its dark corners.

  — Colum McCann 

• Whether you call it a crime novel or a mystery novel or a giraffe with polka dots is largely irrelevant—THE WHITES is, simply put, a great American novel.

  — Dennis Lehane

• THE WHITES is the crime novel of the year—grim, gutsy, and impossible to put down. I had to read the final 100 pages in a single sitting. I began being fascinated, and ended being deeply moved. Call him Price or Brandt, he knows everything about police life, and plenty about friendship: what your friends do for you…and what they sometimes do to you.

  — Stephen King