Dick Lehr

The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide Dick Lehr Reprint edition

?A monumental account of an urban travesty?.[It] has all the earmarks of a classic.?
?Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Dick Lehr?s The Fence, subtitled, ?A Police Cover-up Along Boston?s Racial Divide,? is a shocking true story of racism, brutality, official lies and negligence, when the truth about the savage beating of black plainclothes policeman by white officers was hidden behind a ?blue wall of silence.?  Respected journalist Lehr, winner of the Hancock Award, the Loeb Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and bestselling author of Black Mass and Judgment Ridge, sheds a brilliant light on all aspects of this powerful, disturbing event and its aftermath.