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The Boys on the Tracks
by Mara Leveritt
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Hardcover - 384 pages 1 edition (November 1999)
VHPS/St. Martins Press; ISBN: 0312198418
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: 6,912
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Number of Reviews: 1
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>From Kirkus Reviews
Award-winning investigative reporter Leveritts debut is a wrecking-ball tale
of tragedy, malfeasance, and machine politics that resembles an all-true
Arkansas Confidential. In 1987, Linda Ives suffered a parental
worst-nightmare when her son and a friend were run over by a train, whose
crew observed them supine and covered with a tarp before impact. Local law
enforcement attributed the deaths to a massive overdose of marijuana and
dismissed the crews tale as optical illusion, in the first of many suspicious
official fumbles. Ives compelled a series of investigations that began
promisingly yet were inexplicably stifled by such malign forces as the states
notoriously incompetent medical examiner (protected by then-Governor Clinton)
and an admired local prosecutor who championed her cause as camouflage for
his own criminal activities. As years passed, and more unsolved killings
occurred, Ives assembled evidence that the boys had stumbled upon a diffuse
conspiracy involving CIA-backed air suppliers to the Contras, who ran an
enormous cocaine-trafficking operation from a remote airport. Fanciful as
this may sound, Leveritt documents how Ivess quest for transparency was
consistently stymied, first by local agencies, then the state police, finally
by the FBI. A portrait emerges of state governance as a deeply corrupted
good-ol'-boy network, funded by drug money and protected by blackmail and
violence. Leveritts prose is less than taut, and she too often indulges in
repetitive emotional rhetoric regarding the Iveses loss. That said, her
investigatory efforts seem impeccable; little within this page-turner reads
as implausible conspiracy theory. Unlike many works that have dug for the
dirt of the Clinton gubernatorial era, this is an authentically shocking,
deeply unsettling portrait of contemporary American power backstopped by
arrogance and callous greedand of the drug war as a weapon of social control
from which insiders enjoy impunity. One hopes for sufficient outrage garnered
to substitute for justice denied; also, for an inevitable movie adaptation
that wont dilute the storys uglier civic dimensions. -- Copyright �1999,
Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
>From the Author , October 17, 1999
Federal secrecy surrounds two unsolved Arkansas murders.
The story of the two Arkansas teenagers who were murdered in 1987 and left to
be run over by a train has gained international notoriety. Groups opposed to
President Clinton have publicized it in an effort to link him to the crime.
The White House has responded by dismissing even serious accounts of the
story as "nutcase material." As a veteran reporter in Arkansas with
first-hand information on the case, I was amazed by the inaccuracies being
spread by partisans on all sides of the mystery. I wrote this book to set the
record straight--and because the truth of what happened here is more
remarkable, and more frightening, than any political spin. These events would
be serious enough if they involved only Arkansas officials. But they do not.
For reasons that have never been explained, the FBI involved itself in this
case and, even now, twelve years after the murders, will neither discuss its
role in the investigation nor release its files. The FBI also refuses to
release sensitive records relating to a Seal's use of a base in Arkansas to
smuggle billions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States.For more
than a decade the mother of one the such unusual treatment? This book
describes in chilling and carefully documented detail just how unusual that
treatment has been
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Average Customer Review: Number of Reviews: 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from Arkansas, United States , June 23, 1999
A truly shocking story of murder and political corruption.
I had the pleasure of reading The Boys on the Tracks in manuscript form. It
is a thrilling book. The story focuses on Linda Ives, a middle-class mother
living outside Little Rock with her family. One day, her 17-year-old son does
not come home. The reader discovers the evidence of her son's disappearance
as Linda discovers it. Her explorations become yours and her anger,
frustration, heartbreak, and joy becomes yours as well. It is journalistic
nonfiction, a true story, perfect in its awfulness, well documented, but it
reads like a novel you can't put down. This book will give you a bang-up
story and a look at politics you don't find in the newspapers or on CNN. It's
a treat.
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