Andy Puopolo: An Interview with award winning author Jan Brogan Pt. 1

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 4 a.m.

Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the\xa0Boston Globe, a staff writer for the\xa0Worcester Telegram\xa0and the\xa0Providence Journal, where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing.\nShe is the award-winning author of four mysteries,\xa0Final Copy,\xa0Confidential Source,\xa0Yesterday\u2019s Fatal, and\xa0Teaser. Transactional Pictures, (Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman) purchased the rights to\xa0A Confidential Source, which is currently under development for a television series.\nThe Combat Zone\xa0is a true account of a brutal murder, two flawed trials and the not so delicate balance between justice and revenge. It tells the story of an annual Harvard ritual that sent forty football players into Boston\u2019s crime-plagued red light district for a \u201clast drink, together,\u201d and the death of a heroic 21-year-old cornerback who tries to save a friend.\nThe Combat Zone\xa0shows how a murder trial isn\u2019t always about the victim or the accused but about a city in turmoil and a criminal justice system in need of reform.\nShortlisted for a 2022 Anthony Award and a 2021 Agatha Award\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOmeAGWgLI\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfgXhz5Dkc\nYou can buy her book THE COMBAT ZONE: Murder, Race, and Boston\u2019s Struggle for Justice at https://janbrogan.com/the-combat-zone/\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices