The Northwest Community Organization in Chicago was the first people’s organization to get a handle on it. Sandy, he knew, typically came on like she knew it all even when she didn’t. “Redlined? You’ve mentioned that before, but I really can’t say that I understand it all that well?”įlynt hesitated and gazed at her for a moment to make sure that she wasn’t pulling his chain. Fire insurance on Green Street? Good luck getting any insurance company to write a new policy in your neighborhood or anywhere else in central J.

He raised his hands and dropped them in a gesture of helplessness.

She claims all fires are ‘thoroughly investigated, Mr. Talked to one of the fact checkers over at Little City Hall. “Better make up a Freedom of Information request, get one of your leaders to sign it. “So far can’t get anyone from the district to return my calls,” he said with a thin smile. “Any word from the district fire chief ’s office?” Two interwoven plots work their way through the narrative, one is absolutely true, the other never happened, but very well might have. Their search will lead them through a labyrinth of corrupt politicians, Asian gangsters and bent churchmen. Why? Who stands to gain?Ĭommunity 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. 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. 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. Boston’s Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege, a community skating along the razor’s edge of decline. Genre: Historical Fiction/ Mystery/ Thriller

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Redlined by Richard W. Wise