Redlined, A Novel of Boston - by Richard W Wise (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The year 1974. Boston's Jamaica Plain is a community skating along the razor's edge of decline. The banks have REDLINED. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood organizer, has been found among the ashes. Why? Who stands to gain?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The year is 1974. Boston's Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege, a community skating along the razor's edge of decline. The banks have REDLINED Jamaica Plain, causing the housing market to crash, wiping out local homeowner's lifetime investments and opening the neighborhood to blockbusters and slumlords. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood organizer, has been found among the ashes. Why? Who stands to gain? Community organizer and Marine combat veteran, Jedidiah Flynt and Alex Jordan, his beautiful Harvard educated researcher together with a group of local property owners are determined to stop the redlining and and bring the arsonists responsible for Sandy Morgan's death to justice. Their search will lead them through a labyrinth of corrupt politicians, Asian gangsters and bent churchmen.Two interwoven plots work their way through the narrative, one is absolutely true, the other never happened, but might have.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Redlined: A Novel of Boston</em> would be a great addition to the summer reading list...It is an informative but exciting whodunit thriller that tells a compelling story of how a small group of Jamaica Plain residents...pioneered anti-redlining policies that stabilized their neighborhood, and...transformed Jamaica Plain into one of Boston' premier, and increasingly exclusive, neighborhoods." </strong>Kenneth Reardon--Shelterforce Magazine.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Redlined </em>by Richard W. Wise is a gripping suspense thriller </strong>that approaches its subject on many levels, city politics, big money power brokers, banks, cultural institutions such as the Catholic Church in an old Boston neighborhood, and most importantly, what happens on the human level of family, friends and neighbors trying to protect their dreams...<em>Redlined</em>maintains an edge of realism that will keep you guessing until the very end..."</strong> Colin Harrington, <em>The Berkshire Eagle </em></strong></p><p><em></em>"Idealism meets harsh reality on the streets of Boston </strong>in Richard Wise's well observed novel Redlined. </em>Activists, crooked developers and politicians clash in a battle for the face of a city...an evocative and provocative read." Edward J. Delaney; Author: </em><em> Broken Irish</em></strong></p><p></em>"An original and simply riveting novel </strong>by an author with an impressive narrative storytelling style, "Redlined" by Richard W. Wise will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library General Fiction collections. The kind of novel that movies are made out of. </p><p>At first, <em>Redlined</em> reads with the setup and motivation of a murder mystery. Readers are in for a bigger treat, however, because <strong>Richard W. Wise incorporates real, contemporary social issues and tensions into this story, along with a special dynamic between the investigators, which elevates his read beyond a typical whodunit.</strong></p><p>While investigative mystery readers will be the likely audience of <em>Redlined</em>, the story will especially appeal to women who like their characters strong and purposeful. Another audience will be readers familiar with Boston's cultural milieu, who will find <em>Redlined </em>an absorbing series of conundrums that lead ever deeper into the heart of a community's manipulations, politics, and social interactions. Highly recommended."<strong> Midwest Book Review</strong></p><br>
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