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Also by Jan Brogan:

The Combat Zone, October 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Teaser, December 2008
Hardcover
Yesterday's Fatal, May 2007
Hardcover
A Confidential Source, April 2005
Hardcover

The Combat Zone
Jan Brogan

Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice

Bright Light Books
October 2021
On Sale: September 24, 2021
240 pages
ISBN: 1625346093
EAN: 9781625346094
Kindle: B09LSKGDRW
Paperback / e-Book
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Historical

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.

Starting with this brutal murder, The Combat Zone tells the story of the Puopolo family's struggle with both a devastating loss and a criminal justice system that produced two trials with opposing verdicts, all within the context of a racially divided Boston. Brogan traces the contentious relationship between Boston’s segregated neighborhoods during the busing crisis; shines a light on a court system that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based purely on their racial or ethnic identity; and lays bare the deep-seated corruption within the police department and throughout the Combat Zone. What emerges is a fascinating snapshot of the city at a transitional moment in its recent past.

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