John Solie (31 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. John Solie (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG+ condition unmarked book. "The Story of Walt Disney's Motion Picture." [0903].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Solie (illustrator). This is a nonfiction childrens biography book about the jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong. The book is colorfully illustrated and in good condition with tight binding and 79 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding is square and solid. Pages are unmarked, clean and unbent. Board corners worn; spine head and tail quite worn.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD 1st Printing Trade Paperback. Volume 12 in this series of fiction by new Canadian writers. Unmarked, nearly perfect covers, as-new interiors. 5.25" x 8.25", 212 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. John Solie Painted Cover (illustrator). PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 179 pages. >>> Tommy Shannon takes on the whole Protestant, Catholic & Jewish world in this Coming of Age story; "The sequel to "Once a Catholic". Out of the arms of the Mother church to the arms of a Jewish princess. Further adventures of Tommy Shannon and his break with his family and the church." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Solie, John (illustrator). Authorized Edition. Whitman #1577. The story of Walt Disney's motion picture. The hardcover is clean and lightly rubbed on all extremities. The pages are lightly age-toned. The binding is tight. The book is unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Solie, John (illustrator). Whitman #1577. The story of Walt Disney's motion picture. The hardcover is clean and lightly rubbed on all extremities. The pages are lightly age-toned. The binding is tight. Small number written on the first pastedown endpaper. The rest of the book is unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Solie, John (illustrator). Authorized Edition. Whitman #1577. The story of Walt Disney's motion picture. The hardcover is clean and lightly rubbed on all extremities. Inscribed by previous owner on the ffep. The rest of the book is unmarked. The pages are lightly age-toned. The binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Solie, John (illustrator). Whitman #1577. The story of Walt Disney's motion picture. The hardcover is clean and lightly rubbed on all extremities. The book is unmarked. The pages are lightly age-toned. The binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Solie, John (illustrator). Authorized Edition. Whitman #1577. The story of Walt Disney's motion picture. The hardcover is clean but rubbed on all extremities. Name of previous owner on endpapers and first flyleaf. The rest of the book is unmarked. The pages are age toned. The binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Solie, John (illustrator). Authorized Edition. The story of Walt Disney's motion picture. The hardcover is clean but rubbed on all extremities. The inside is unmarked. The pages are age toned. The binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Solie, John (illustrator). Authorized Edition. This old book has been kept in very good condition. The inside is clean and tight. There are no signs of previous ownership. The cover has retained its original coloring. The edges are bumped and rubbed, but only minimally so. Overall this book is in an amazing copy.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. John Solie (illustrator). First Edition. This is a biography of Louis Armstrong. It stresses the youth and early career of the famous jazz musician from New Orleans who began his career in the Waifs' Home for Boys. Included are illustrations, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. This copy is clean and solid. It is written at about a third grade reading level. It is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, inscribed on the front free endpaper. This book was owned by Florence Graybill. The inscription is to her. She is the author of "Edward Sheriff Curtiss: Visions of a Vanishing Race" and the second daughter of Edward Curtiss, famous Native American and Western photographer (1893-1983). She died in 1987. Signed by Author(s).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings (Two Different Store Stamps to Reverse of Stepback Art, First Page of Front Matter); Previous Owner Markings (Telephone Number Neatly Inked (Upside Down) to "About the Author" Page (Last Page)); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 BESTSELLER. HIS FIRST NONFICTION WORK SINCE THE ONION FIELD. ALSO KNOWN AS: Serialized in Los Angeles magazine, January 1984. COVER: Bantam Books, Inc. STEPBACK ART: John Solie. SYNOPSIS: THEY SAW THEMSELVES AS "THE LAST OF THE HARDBALL, CACTUS-STUCK, WORM-CHEWING, CHILI-SUCKING, SKULL-CRUNCHING GUNSLINGERS IN THE WEST." AND EVERY NIGHT THEY HAD TO PROVE IT. THE TRUE STORY ONLY WAMBAUGH COULD TELL. A BAND OF CALIFORNIA COPS SET LOOSE IN NO-MAN'S-LAND TO COME HOME HEROES. OR COME HOME DEAD. Not since Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as.Lines and Shadows. 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--relentlessly 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. - and - LT. DICK SNIDER - 17-year San Diego police veteran. He puts together a police task force of determined cops to patrol the border killing ground--cops prepared to fight bandit-style against the criminals slaughtering helpless pollos, illegal aliens. SGT. MANNY LOPEZ - Craft, gutsy team leader. He lives by the code of machismo, thrives on violence, and is becoming a hard-ball gunslinging lawman frighteningly convinced of his own invulnerability. FRED GIL - Oldest cop on the team. An ex-Marine, judo champ, and Vietnam vet, he truly cares about the pollos, and he'll risk his life and ruin his marriage to play decoy in that pitiless borderland. ERNIE SALGADO - The tallest of them, their weapons expert. Another ex-Marine who has seen his share of combat, he wonders if the canyons at night will make him flash to Nam. CARLOS CHACON - A rookie. He loves guns, has violent dreams and is so quick on the trigger that he may be as dangerous to cops as he is to robbers. KEN KELLY - They call him King. A big, blond, wild-eyed, hard-drinking cop. At times he's a demented Jack Nicholson, at others a supercharged Romeo. He has to get on the task force--somehow. Joseph Wambaugh, a fourteen-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of numerous best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Choirboys, The Onion Field, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, and The Delta Star. Lines and Shadows is his first work of nonfiction since The Onion Field. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings (Neatly Inked in Black to Title Page: Some One Read this book I can't--Had (2) Trys Don Disher July 15/85); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 BESTSELLER. HIS FIRST NONFICTION WORK SINCE THE ONION FIELD. ALSO KNOWN AS: Serialized in Los Angeles magazine, January 1984. COVER: Bantam Books, Inc. STEPBACK ART: John Solie. SYNOPSIS: THEY SAW THEMSELVES AS "THE LAST OF THE HARDBALL, CACTUS-STUCK, WORM-CHEWING, CHILI-SUCKING, SKULL-CRUNCHING GUNSLINGERS IN THE WEST." AND EVERY NIGHT THEY HAD TO PROVE IT. THE TRUE STORY ONLY WAMBAUGH COULD TELL. A BAND OF CALIFORNIA COPS SET LOOSE IN NO-MAN'S-LAND TO COME HOME HEROES. OR COME HOME DEAD. Not since Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as.Lines and Shadows. 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--relentlessly 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. - and - LT. DICK SNIDER - 17-year San Diego police veteran. He puts together a police task force of determined cops to patrol the border killing ground--cops prepared to fight bandit-style against the criminals slaughtering helpless pollos, illegal aliens. SGT. MANNY LOPEZ - Craft, gutsy team leader. He lives by the code of machismo, thrives on violence, and is becoming a hard-ball gunslinging lawman frighteningly convinced of his own invulnerability. FRED GIL - Oldest cop on the team. An ex-Marine, judo champ, and Vietnam vet, he truly cares about the pollos, and he'll risk his life and ruin his marriage to play decoy in that pitiless borderland. ERNIE SALGADO - The tallest of them, their weapons expert. Another ex-Marine who has seen his share of combat, he wonders if the canyons at night will make him flash to Nam. CARLOS CHACON - A rookie. He loves guns, has violent dreams and is so quick on the trigger that he may be as dangerous to cops as he is to robbers. KEN KELLY - They call him King. A big, blond, wild-eyed, hard-drinking cop. At times he's a demented Jack Nicholson, at others a supercharged Romeo. He has to get on the task force--somehow. Joseph Wambaugh, a fourteen-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of numerous best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Choirboys, The Onion Field, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, and The Delta Star. Lines and Shadows is his first work of nonfiction since The Onion Field. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; Number "5" Stamped on Lower Edge. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings (Three Lines of Numbers Neatly Inked to Reverse of Front Cover); Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 8th Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Onion Field. The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting". SYNOPSIS: THE MURDER HUNT THAT REVOLUTIONIZED MODERN CRIME DETECTION. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man police dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. - and - THE MURDERER'S GUILT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS OWN BLOOD. WHO WAS IT? The Brawling Ex-Soldier . . . one of the victims was his pretty stepdaughter. The Orange-Haired Punk . . . he'd been spotted near the crime scenes. The Kitchen Porter . . . young girls complained of his sexual attentions. The Baker's Assistant . . . he had been in trouble before. The Pipe Layer . . . he loved the ladies and skipped the country. If it were not for one astonishing genetic breakthrough, this rapist-murderer would still be loose today . . . Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed best sellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 13th Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 BESTSELLER. Joseph Wambaugh, Author of FUGITIVE NIGHTS. ALSO KNOWN AS: Serialized in Los Angeles magazine, January 1984. COVER: Bantam Books, Inc. STEPBACK ART: John Solie. SYNOPSIS: THE TRUE STORY ONLY WAMBAUGH COULD TELL. A BAND OF CALIFORNIA COPS SET LOOSE IN NO-MAN'S-LAND TO COME HOME HEROES. OR COME HOME DEAD. Not since Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as.Lines and Shadows. 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--relentlessly 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. - and - LT. DICK SNIDER - 17-year San Diego police veteran. He puts together a police task force of determined cops to patrol the border killing ground--cops prepared to fight bandit-style against the criminals slaughtering helpless pollos, illegal aliens. SGT. MANNY LOPEZ - Craft, gutsy team leader. He lives by the code of machismo, thrives on violence, and is becoming a hard-ball gunslinging lawman frighteningly convinced of his own invulnerability. FRED GIL - Oldest cop on the team. An ex-Marine, judo champ, and Vietnam vet, he truly cares about the pollos, and he'll risk his life and ruin his marriage to play decoy in that pitiless borderland. ERNIE SALGADO - The tallest of them, their weapons expert. Another ex-Marine who has seen his share of combat, he wonders if the canyons at night will make him flash to Nam. CARLOS CHACON - A rookie. He loves guns, has violent dreams and is so quick on the trigger that he may be as dangerous to cops as he is to robbers. KEN KELLY - They call him King. A big, blond, wild-eyed, hard-drinking cop. At times he's a demented Jack Nicholson, at others a supercharged Romeo. He has to get on the task force--somehow. Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed bestsellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Solie (illustrator). First Thus 10th Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BLOODING. ALSO KNOWN AS: Serialized in Los Angeles magazine, January 1984. COVER: Bantam Books, Inc. STEPBACK ART: John Solie. SYNOPSIS: THE TRUE STORY ONLY WAMBAUGH COULD TELL. A BAND OF CALIFORNIA COPS SET LOOSE IN NO-MAN'S-LAND TO COME HOME HEROES. OR COME HOME DEAD. Not since Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as.Lines and Shadows. 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--relentlessly 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. - and - LT. DICK SNIDER - 17-year San Diego police veteran. He puts together a police task force of determined cops to patrol the border killing ground--cops prepared to fight bandit-style against the criminals slaughtering helpless pollos, illegal aliens. SGT. MANNY LOPEZ - Craft, gutsy team leader. He lives by the code of machismo, thrives on violence, and is becoming a hard-ball gunslinging lawman frighteningly convinced of his own invulnerability. FRED GIL - Oldest cop on the team. An ex-Marine, judo champ, and Vietnam vet, he truly cares about the pollos, and he'll risk his life and ruin his marriage to play decoy in that pitiless borderland. ERNIE SALGADO - The tallest of them, their weapons expert. Another ex-Marine who has seen his share of combat, he wonders if the canyons at night will make him flash to Nam. CARLOS CHACON - A rookie. He loves guns, has violent dreams and is so quick on the trigger that he may be as dangerous to cops as he is to robbers. KEN KELLY - They call him King. A big, blond, wild-eyed, hard-drinking cop. At times he's a demented Jack Nicholson, at others a supercharged Romeo. He has to get on the task force--somehow. Joseph Wambaugh, who spent fourteen years with the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of ten previous internationally acclaimed bestsellers: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Choirboys, The Black Marble, The Glitter Dome, The Delta Star, Lines and Shadows, The Secrets of Harry Bright, and Echoes in the Darkness. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Andy Andres and John Solie (illustrator). 1st Edition. Copyright date 1996, first edition, first printing. Signed on the inside title page by both Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes. Dark blue and light blue cover over boards with silver lettering and design on the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations. No tears, bent pages, nor any writing. Dust Jacket, no tears, bent flaps, nor is it price clipped. Dust jacket now in a clear cover. Text illustrations remains bright and clean, binding is secure, a solid collectible signed book by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes. Signed by Author(s).