Bruno Johnson is a detective and loves his job. Out of the blue, his old
girlfriend shows up at his house with a baby girl. She hands over the
baby and says it is your turn now and leaves. Bruno is shocked; he had
no idea that he was a father. With the help of his own father, they will
take care of the baby and raise her together.
Bruno has just been assigned to a new division. His boss is Lieutenant
Wicks, head of the violent crimes division. After the first day on the job,
Bruno realizes that things might not be what they should be. After only
one day in this division, he is approached by Wicks and is told that he
is going to go undercover in the narcotics division. Wicks explains that
there are some shady cops in this division and they want his help to
expose them.
Bruno doesn't want to become a snitch but he takes the job anyway.
After one day on the job, he goes home to find out that his father has
been arrested for attacking one of the women on his mail route. Bruno
suspects that two of the cops in his new division is behind this, but he
needs a way to prove it. These two cops, Blue and Thibodeaux, believe
in "shoot first, ask questions later." They also have no problem setting
up a crime scene to make it look like they had to shot the criminal.
David Putnam writes a really great police thriller. You can tell that
Putnam uses his experience as a policeman in writing
THE INNOCENTS. Putnam gets you
right into the depth of what an undercover cop has to go through in the
line of duty. In this story, it shows how sometimes you don't know who
you can really trust. Putnam describes everything so great that you feel
that you are right in the story. I have not read the other books in the
Bruno Johnson series, but that didn't make things confusing, and now I
want to read the rest of them. If you enjoy police thrillers, go out and
get this book; it will not disappoint you.
Bruno Johnson, a newly minted LA County Sheriff Violent Crimes detective, gets the worst assignment possible— infiltrate a sheriff's narcotics team that may be involved in murder for hire. Gain their trust and be brought into the scheme. If he succeeds, he will have to arrest and testify against his fellow deputies—if he lives that long. To make matters worse, before Bruno leaves home on the first day of this assignment, he answers the door to find an ex-girlfriend. Without explanation, she hands him a baby girl only weeks old. The child is his. Stunned and terrified, he now faces immediate fatherhood as well as the traitor-like charge to take down his colleagues. Juggling his complex home life, Bruno tackles his assignment to discover that no one is who they seem to be and that his boss, Lieutenant Wicks, might be involved. His mission is further complicated when an attractive female deputy, recently transferred from Public Affairs, is also put on the case. She has no street experience and Bruno carries the extra burden of watching her back—a tough assignment made tougher by personal attraction. As Bruno gets deeper and deeper into the corruption, he doesn't know whom to trust, and in the end, confides in the wrong person.
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