by Joseph Wambaugh · P/B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780708826454
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«Lines and Shadows» is Joseph Wambaugh's nonfiction chronicle, published by P/B in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Nonfiction chronicle of Mexican immigration on the southwestern US border: undocumented people trying to cross and gangs that terrorize them. A group of police officers poses as migrants to dismantle the gangs; the operation confronts them with the ambiguous line between law and justice.
Classified as true crime within police nonfiction, it received the Rodolfo Walsh Prize in 1988.
Recommended for readers interested in true crime, immigration, and police work on the US border.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
