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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This is a disquieting, involving account of the murder of an undercover police officer by two teenagers in Midlothian, Tex., regarded as an idyllic town to raise children. Officer George Raffield posed as a high school student to infiltrate Midlothian's drug culture, which he did with some success. After a time, however, the student drug abusers grew suspicious of him, especially Greg Knighten, adopted son of a police officer, and Richard Goeglein, whose parents had moved from Arizona following his involvement in a bizarre suicide pact. The two lured Raffield into the country and Knighten shot him. Goeglein turned state's evidence and his cohort was sentenced to 45 years after a trial which, Stowers ( Careless Whispers ) suggests, revealed the district attorney as a mediocre prosecutor.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
YA-- George Raffield was a 21-year-old police officer posing as a student at Midlothian High School, located in a rural community 30 miles outside of Dallas, Texas. His assignment was to infiltrate a drug ring operating at the school. George quickly made friends with the main students involved, even providing transportation to neighboring towns when drugs arrived. When his true identity was discovered, he was taken out to a field and executed by two of his new "friends." With chilling clarity, Stowers compares the total frustration and sorrow on the part of George's family and fellow officers with the indifference and lack of remorse shown by his youthful murderers. Their trail was an elaborate exercise in plea bargaining and expense and brought little healing to the wounded community. This grim crime story reminds readers that violence is confined neither to the big city nor to the aged criminal but is rampant in today's society. --Katherine Fitch, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria,
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is a disquieting, involving account of the murder of an undercover police officer by two teenagers in Midlothian, Tex., regarded as an idyllic town to raise children. Officer George Raffield posed as a high school student to infiltrate Midlothian's drug culture, which he did with some success. After a time, however, the student drug abusers grew suspicious of him, especially Greg Knighten, adopted son of a police officer, and Richard Goeglein, whose parents had moved from Arizona following his involvement in a bizarre suicide pact. The two lured Raffield into the country and Knighten shot him. Goeglein turned state's evidence and his cohort was sentenced to 45 years after a trial which, Stowers ( Careless Whispers ) suggests, revealed the district attorney as a mediocre prosecutor.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
YA-- George Raffield was a 21-year-old police officer posing as a student at Midlothian High School, located in a rural community 30 miles outside of Dallas, Texas. His assignment was to infiltrate a drug ring operating at the school. George quickly made friends with the main students involved, even providing transportation to neighboring towns when drugs arrived. When his true identity was discovered, he was taken out to a field and executed by two of his new "friends." With chilling clarity, Stowers compares the total frustration and sorrow on the part of George's family and fellow officers with the indifference and lack of remorse shown by his youthful murderers. Their trail was an elaborate exercise in plea bargaining and expense and brought little healing to the wounded community. This grim crime story reminds readers that violence is confined neither to the big city nor to the aged criminal but is rampant in today's society. --Katherine Fitch, Jefferson Sci-Tech, Alexandria,
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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