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 Atonement continues the author's behind-the-scenes portrayal,
with wit and insight, of the criminal justice system and how a task
force truly operates. Path to Atonement's action takes the reader from
Kathmandu, Kashmir, Delhi, Vietnam, and Tanzania's Serengeti and Mt.
Kilimanjaro to Yellowstone National Park, San Diego, and Tijuana.
Jim Dutton was a career prosecutor in California.
National television shows, 48 Hours, Cold Case, and
Forensic Files have featured his murder trials. He
prosecuted numerous child molestation and rape
cases. He 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. Jim was the representative for
human trafficking for the San Diego-based California
Attorney General's Office and incorporated a
human trafficking analysis in his Money Laundering
Manual for law enforcement.
Jim is an avid outdoorsman, photographer, and traveler. He has written
numerous travel and legal articles over the years. He lives with his wife,
two sons, and their incorrigible, skunk-seeking dog, Wylie Coyote, in Del
Mar, California.
Nick Drummond struggles with the consequences of his past acts and
seeks relief at a Buddhist monastery in Ladakh, India, before making the
most difficult decision of his life.
