The Whites, Price - B +

                                               This novel is an absolutely superb cop story about the NYPD. The main character is Billy Graves, son of a noted policeman. After twenty plus years,  he is the only one of  five cops who started and worked together back in the 90's still on the Job. His crew consists of Yasmeen,  a private security officer; Whelan, a drunk working as a superintendent in run-down buildings;  Pavlicek, a wealthy real-estate developer; and Redman, a mortician.  Lurking in the background is another active duty cop, a younger man, Milton Ramos, who grew up in the same building as Billy's wife, Carmen.  Early in his career, Billy had shot a man and the bullet went through him  killing, an innocent kid. Billy wound up on the wrong end of a massive publicity circus. Although he was as high as a kite when he pulled the trigger, that fact was never more than asserted or guessed at. He lost his first wife because of this event, but his friends and colleagues stood by him. To a great extent, one of the main sub-plots here is the fierce loyalty that is created amongst police. In this novel, Billy supervises the night shift in Manhattan, and notices that all of a sudden, their 'whites' are dying mysteriously.  A 'white' is the one that got away, the cold-blooded murderer who slipped through the cracks and haunts a cop sometimes for the rest of their life. While trying to sort all of this out, Billy's family is targeted. As it turns out, Carmen is Milton's 'white' because as a 15-year-old, she intentionally gave his brother's apartment number to some guys, who happened to be very bad. All in all, this is a wonderful read, one where you feel as if you are in the middle of a very scary NYC.