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“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*** * * *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.