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
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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