Book Notes: ‘The Fixer’ shows off the corrupt side of Boston

"The Fixer," by Joseph Finder. Dutton, New York, 2015. 416 pages. $27.95.A down-on-his-luck Boston investigative reporter who loses his job, his fashion-model-gorgeous girlfriend, his home and a good hunk of his self-esteem has nowhere to go but up. This is Boston author Joseph Finder's operating premise and it's one we journalists happily embrace. You can't keep a good muckraker down — at least in fiction.Before you've sped through all 416 pages of "The Fixer," likable Rick Hoffman is [...]