Lines and Shadows by Wambaugh, Joseph - 1984

Bantam Books. Good. 1984. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are yellow stained. The book has a double front cover. The front cover has had a sticker removed and it has left a white patch and some spots on the front cover and there are some brown spots on the inside front cover. The corners of all the covers have small creases at the tips and the edges are scuffed from shelf wear. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 383 pages; They saw themselves as the last of the hardball cactus-stuck worm - chewing gunslingers in the west, and every night they had to prove it. The media hailed them as heroes. Others denounced them as lawless renegades. A squad of tough cops called the Border Crime Task Force. A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-land south of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into the U. S. , but to stop the ruthless bandits who preyed on them nightly-relentl essly robbing, raping and murdering defenseless men, women and children. The task force plan was simple. They would disguise themselves as illegal aliens. They would confront the murderous shadows of the night. Yet each time they walked into the violent blackness along the border, they came closer to another boundary line-a fragile line within each man. And crossing it meant destroying their sanity and their lives. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .