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Book Review of Lines and Shadows

Lines and Shadows
Lines and Shadows
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Joseph Wambaugh explores a phenomenom that is attracting national attention, the wave of immigration from Mexico across the southwestern United States boder, in "Lines and Shadows.

A nonfiction work that the New York Times Book Review called his best book yet". Lines and Shadows leads you into the frightening world of illegal aliens and the vicious bandits who terroize them.

The cops who pose as aliens to break up the bandit ring find themselves crossing and recrossing the unclear lines between law and justice, real life and dangerous myth.