Path to Atonement

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.