Lines and Shadows

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Joseph Wambaugh explores a phenomenon that is attracting increasing national attention, the wave of immigration from Mexico across the southwestern United States border, 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 desperate, frightening world of illegal aliens and the vicious bandits who terrorize 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.