Description: Not since Joseph Wambaugh's best-sellingThe Onion Field has there been a truepolice story as fascinating, as totally gripping as. . .Lines And Shadows. Themedia hailed them as heroes. Others denounced themas lawless renegades. A squad of tough copscalled the Border Crime Task Force. A commando teamsent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-landsouth of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands ofillegal aliens slipping into the U.S., but to stopthe ruthless bandits who preyed on themnightly--relentlessly robbing, raping and murderingdefenseless men, women and children. The task force planwas simple. They would disguise themselves asillegal aliens. They would confront the murderousshadows of the night. Yet each time they walkedinto the violent blackness along the border, theycame closer to another boundary line--a fragile linewithin each man. and crossing it meant destroyingtheir sanity and their lives.

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