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The Line: Where Responsibility Stops - Book One
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781969709678
Publisher: Lampert & Sons Publishing
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Their pet Siberian tiger read four paragraphs and passed out cold.
This is the version that won't collapse four NATO alliances.
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Justin Lampert talks too much, laughs at inappropriate moments, and has a way of looking at people that makes them confess things they haven't done yet.
Erik Block barely speaks at all. He moves through the world like water through cracks-finding gaps, filling spaces, disappearing before anyone notices he was there. His file says he's adaptable. His file is an understatement.
Together, they do what governments can't. Or won't.
They find the people who think they're untouchable-the predators hiding behind lawyers, the monsters protected by bureaucracy, the powerful who believe consequences are for other people-and they prove them catastrophically wrong.
No badges. No warrants. No oversight.
Just results.
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But someone has been watching. Learning. Designing problems specifically calibrated to force Justin and Erik out of the shadows and into an impossible choice.
Play by someone else's rules-or watch everything burn.
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THE LINE is a darkly comedic thriller about accountability, friendship, and what happens when the only people willing to do what's necessary are the ones everyone pretends don't exist.
Featuring:
- Ethics Committee memos that will make you laugh out loud
- Load-bearing redactions (do not attempt to remove)
- A 673-pound tiger named Tootsie who has a therapist now
- The phrase practice toe used in ways you won't forget
- A cat named Theodore who remains unimpressed
Some problems can't be solved by committees.
Some people can't be stopped by laws.
Some lines can only be held by monsters willing to become what the darkness requires.
Book One in THE LINE series.
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They didn't reject the role. They abolished it.
You're welcome.
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