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Biography & Autobiography Law Enforcement

The Thin Black Line

True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America’s Meanest Str

by (author) Hugh Holton

Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Category
Law Enforcement, Cultural Heritage
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780312868208
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $28.95

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Meet the black men and women policing our meanest streets.. .LaVerne Dunlap - She infiltrates drug gangs and testifies against them in court... only to have the drug lords come gunning for her. Dep. County Sheriff Winroe Reed - He goes into America’s “Homicide Capital” alone to apprehend a 6’9” homicidal crack dealer... a man so dangerous no other cops would accompany him. Robbie Robinson - A movie actor/martial arts star/probation officer, he takes down LA’s toughest gangs. These are just a few of the courageous black heroes in Hugh Holton’s The Thin Black Line.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Police Lieutenant HUGH HOLTON was a twenty-nine year veteran of the Chicago Police Department. He wrote several bestselling novels, including,Time of the Assassins, The Left Hand of God, andViolent Crimes. At the time of his death, Hugh Holton was the highest ranking active police officer writing novels in America.