The Fix

About the Book

What does the contamination of a small town’s lake by the negligence of the Massachusetts Department of Correction have to do with President George W. Bush’s election and re-election, Congressman William Delahunt’s first election, Massachusetts Governors Bill Weld’s and Paul Cellucci’s quests for ambassadorships, Massachusetts Attorney Generals Scott Harshbarger’s and Tom Reilly’s tunnel vision, the politicized Massachusetts judiciary, the St. Patrick’s Day parade in South Boston, “same-sex” unions, a corrupt FBI agent named John Morris, federal judge Mark Wolf and federal prosecutors Donald Stern and Fred Wyshak? This book says what!

About the Author

William M. Connolly has written six books on history and the law. This is his second novel. He studied biology, medicine, public health and law at Boston College, Georgetown Medical, Harvard Public Health and Suffolk Law. He’s a veteran of the U.S. Public Health Service. He practiced law for twenty years in Boston. He’s worked as a laborer, custodian, house painter, truck driver, taxi driver, landscaper and lumberjack. He’s dropped out and changed course frequently in life. In his youth, he boxed, played football, basketball, handball and the piano. He still plays music. He exercises daily, starting slow then tapering off. He writes short stories and angry letters to editors. He rails against the dying of the light. He pokes ribs and ruffles feathers. He disagrees. He has fun.