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Book Review of Innocence Lost

Innocence Lost
Innocence Lost
Author: Carlton Stowers
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Undercover officer George Raffield's job was to pose as a student in the small town of Midlothian, Texas, and infiltrate the high school drug ring. When Raffield's cover became suspect, word spread through a small circle of friends that the young officer would pay with his life. No one stopped it. On a rainy fall eveing in 1987, Raffield was lured to an isolated field. Three bullets were fired--one unloaded into his skull. The baby-faced killed, Greg Knighten, stole eighteen dollars from Raffield's wallet, divided it among his two young accomplices, and calmly said, "It's done."