. >> rose: why do we need harry brandt here? >> it was a mistake. >> rose: you were serious about that? >> it was a mistake of judgment on my part. what i intended to do is write down an utterly stripped-down totally orthodox genre urban thriller, and it was such a different identity for me even though i was dipping into the same pool i always do but the style was going to be so different. it was just going to be about what happens next what happens next. but once i started writing, i realized after 41 years of writing i only know one way to write and the book kept expanding. it wasn't just about the crime and what happens next the characters kept widening, and the family became alsubject -- family's never been a subject in my books -- >> rose: in the end, you being richard price novelist michael shaban said richard price isn't fooling anyone, it's harry brandt's business, only he could have written "the whites." >> it's like i put on a glass pair of pajamas thinking nobody would know i'm naked. >> rose: it didn't happen did it?