''Lines and Shadows'' is a 1984 nonfiction book by

Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937), is a best-selling American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his early novels were set in Los Angeles and its surroun ...

, a former police officer with the

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, chronicling the activities of the Border Crime Task Force of the

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between October 1976 and April 1978.''Lines and Shadows'' at Fantastic Fiction
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References

{{reflist 1984 non-fiction books Non-fiction crime books History of San Diego Culture of San Diego Books with cover art by Paul Bacon William Morrow and Company books