"Rafiq is only nine when Kashmiri Freedom Fighters raid his village in search of new recruits. Tall for his age, he is the first boy to cross the chalk line into a life of brutality and violence"--Cover, p. [4].

Chief of Detectives Ben Gallagher thinks life will once again be rosy when his younger brother Andrew is released from prison. But, on the very day Andrew is set free, the brothers discover the body of a lifelong friend, and the murder launches Ben on a fast slide from his revered rule of law. He is soon ordered to stay away from the case, but the closer he gets, the surer he becomes that a family member is somehow implicated. Torn between loyalties, he embarks on a race that takes him thousands of miles and a couple of decades away, leading to a cold case in the north--and a killer no one would ever suspect.

The Chalk Line is closer to reality than fiction in describing what happens when police do the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Jeff Walker's The Last Chalkline is the biography of Jack Chevigny, Notre Dame football star who figured prominently in the "one for the Gipper" legend in Yankee Stadium and in the Notre Dame-Navy game of 1928-a game that still holds the unofficial record for attendance at Soldier Field. Later, as a coach, he led the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL and was caught in the storm of the NFL's darkest years, the movement toward the expulsion of its African American stars. At the age of twenty-eight, Chevigny led the Texas Longhorns to the precipice of a national championship, only to have his coaching career shattered by two consecutive losing seasons in Austin. As a Marine officer, he accepted the challenge of establishing Camp Lejeune as a premier football program. Under his guidance, Camp Lejeune's football program became the jewel of the Marines, but Chevigny, a close friend of Marine Commandant General Vandegrift, requested combat duty in 1944. Weighing the tragic cost of a man's last full measure, The Last Chalkline is a true account of the man who inspired America's Greatest Generation.

This book was written in tribute to two great women. My first wife, Alice, passed away because of lupus. My second wife, Velma, passed away because of dementia. If I could have taken the place of either one of my wives, I would have. Both my wives were similar at birth. They were both twins. Each had a twin who was a boy. This was something unheard of: that I could marry two different women with the same birth traits. Both were devout Christian women. Their faith in God was their key to their endurance. I know it was in God's plan that he had given me this ministry to be the caregiver for these two ladies of the gospel of Jesus Christ. My chalk line of life by faith also was my key to my endurance. I am going to be obedient to God's word, for my marriage vows are "For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part." What a glorious day when we all meet in heaven. What a family reunion that will be. Come on and follow me on my journey on the chalk line of life by faith, looking for the answer for the twins. This story is about my love for two ladies who exemplified Proverbs 31:10. They were truly two virtuous women.

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