A THIN GRAY LINE The nation's political pundits color the New York US Senate seat safely in blue. But a month before the election, a domestic violence dispute in a posh Albany suburb draws Trooper Linda Baldwin into the center of the New York campaign. The Democratic incumbent's wife refuses to press charges. Enraged by the thought of another powerful man abusing a woman, Linda quietly pursues the truth behind the incident until someone leaks the story to the press identifying her as the responding officer. Hounded by the media and threatened by powerful figures in both political parties with an unsavory truth about her career, Linda peels back the bipartisan layers of deceit and betrayal. Her stubborn quest to expose the truth threatens her career and virtually everyone who matters to her. A week before the country will decide whether Democrats or Republicans control Supreme Court approvals for the next two years Linda is forced to choose between two competing sets of lies and deceptions in an attempt to protect herself and those she cares about. Meanwhile, Fate shows neither respect for politics nor concern for Linda's ideas about truth or the choices she thinks she makes. A THIN GRAY LINE is a fast paced and thought provoking political tale that examines the concept we call truth and poses a simple question. Is truth absolute? Or is it, as Linda's political mentor claims, an illusion created by mankind to suit the occasion? BERNIE BOURDEAU is a native of New York's capital district who currently resides with his wife in Lakeland, Florida. Also by this author CAUSED & EFFECT, the first installment of the Linda Baldwin series, a story of anger and vengeance and the price they exact.