The Fence

“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* **

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*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.