1975. Rural south Texas. Deputy Roe Robinson arrives at the scene of a local man's murder and apprehends a Mexican national with a gun and ten grand in his pocket. In the dead man's attic: One hundred thousand dollars' worth of Mexican dope. When Sheriff JD McKinnon arrests the suspect and places him in the local jail, he unwittingly places himself between the citizens of Pinto, Texas and a bloody tidal wave of drug violence that threatens to wipe the impoverished little border town from the map. Taut and gritty, Starr County Line bares for the reader the once innocent soul of small town life and the burden of those lawmen sworn to protect it in a time of courage testing, heartbreaking drama along the Texas/Mexico border.