INCIDENT AT HOWARD BEACH The Case for Murder.

Hardback. 1st US Edn. Late on the night of December 19, 1986, 4 black men were driving through the all-white community of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, when their car broke down. By the early hours of the next morning, one of them lay dead on the Belt Parkway and one had been beaten nearly to death with a tree limb and a baseball bat by a dozen local teenagers. In the months to come, "Howard Beach" became a code all over the world for the worst in racial tensions. The story behind the Howard Beach incident, its investigation, and the subsequent trial is a story of hatred, brutality, and deceit; of media outcry, political shuffling, and public manipulation. But it was up to one man to bring the case to trial and steer it to its fair conclusion: Special Prosecutor Charles J. "Joe" Hynes. 303pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. F. in Vg+ dw. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage if shipped overseas.