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Jim Dutton
Jim Dutton was a career prosecutor in California. National television shows, Cold Case, 48 Hours, and Forensic Files have featured his murder trials.
Jim Dutton was the Chief of the California Attorney General’s Money Laundering Program for twenty years and testified before the U.S. Congress several times on that subject.
Books
Path to Justice exposes the harsh realities and sacrifices necessary to build a case against a ruthless drug cartel, the Baja Norte Familia. Insights and strategies for conducting a complex international investigation and for trying a drug distribution, money laundering, and murder conspiracy case in federal court is interwoven with perilous confrontations with the cartel. The reader lives the case with the career prosecutor and veteran agents–how they think and how they banter to get by.
Path to Revenge, the second novel in Prosecutor Nick Drummond’s legal thriller trilogy, begins with Drummond facing a grand jury probe for murder for the death of a cartel chief. Drummond avoids indictment when the jury finds out that he was gravely wounded fending off cartel hitmen. After the near indictment, Drummond and task force members go to South America to track down the cartel leader who directed the murder of a deputy U.S. Marshal.
Path to Atonement, the third novel in Prosecutor Nick Drummond’s legal-thriller trilogy begins with a Nepalese girl escaping from a brothel in Tijuana. That leads to Drummond’s task force investigating and prosecuting an international sex and forced-labor trafficking ring which is based in San Diego. Innocent teenage girls from India and Nepal are forced into prostitution by ruthless overseers.
Path to Justice exposes the harsh realities and sacrifices necessary to build a case against a ruthless drug cartel, the Baja Norte Familia. Insights and strategies for conducting a complex international investigation and for trying a drug distribution, money laundering, and murder conspiracy case in federal court is interwoven with perilous confrontations with the cartel. The reader lives the case with the career prosecutor and veteran agents–how they think and how they banter to get by.
Path to Revenge, the second novel in Prosecutor Nick Drummond’s legal thriller trilogy, begins with Drummond facing a grand jury probe for murder for the death of a cartel chief. Drummond avoids indictment when the jury finds out that he was gravely wounded fending off cartel hitmen. After the near indictment, Drummond and task force members go to South America to track down the cartel leader who directed the murder of a deputy U.S. Marshal.
Path to Atonement, the third novel in Prosecutor Nick Drummond’s legal-thriller trilogy begins with a Nepalese girl escaping from a brothel in Tijuana. That leads to Drummond’s task force investigating and prosecuting an international sex and forced-labor trafficking ring which is based in San Diego. Innocent teenage girls from India and Nepal are forced into prostitution by ruthless overseers.
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I welcome your comments and/or questions about any of the novels of my Nick Drummond legal thriller trilogy.