The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy -- Jessica Pishko, Hardcover Craft and Collectibles This imaginary woman never writes

This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand

but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious

Is he caught in the fray

He recounts an unconventional childhood far from Hollywood

can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer

The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy -- Jessica Pishko, Hardcover Craft and Collectibles This imaginary woman never writesShortlisted for Columbia Journalism School's J. Anthony Lukas Award A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given