Richard Price, a screenwriter on the celebrated TV series The Wire, has received high praise for The Whites, his ninth novel. The Washington Post has called the work "a masterpiece", and The Sydney Morning Herald has said it is "the best American crime novel of the year."

The Whites is the story of Billy Graves, who was part of the notorious anti-crime unit, Wild Geese, in the mid-1990s. It all went wrong when he accidentally shot a ten-year-old boy and was shunted from one dead-end job to another.

Now in his early forties, Graves is a sergeant with the Manhattan Night Watch, a small band of detectives charged with responding to post-midnight felonies. It's far from a high profile job, but it all changes when the Watch is called to investigate a murder whose victim may have ties to the Wild Geese.