White Cat is the first book in Holly Black's Curse Worker trilogy. In this world, a small selection of people have one of seven types of power. These include the power to effect dreams, emotions, memories or luck or the power to kill or to transform with a touch. Curse working is illegal in the United States, and hence most curse workers on the East Coast end up with one of the five main crime families. Cassel Sharp is the only person in his family without a power- and the only one of his brothers not working for the mafia. Despite his lack of a power, he is not without his criminal talents and when his brothers need a third man in a dangerous operation, they turn to the very unwilling Cassel. An enjoyable urban fantasy- perhaps a bit darker than that Holly Black's usual books (or else the old ones have gained a rosy glow in my memory). The audio book is well read by Jesse Eisenberg.