David Putnam: 17 books

• Booklist sums up Putnam's Bruno Johnson series: "Bruno Johnson believes so passionately in justice that he'll lie, cheat, and steal to achieve it—and he'll pulverize anybody who gets in his way." • Bestselling author David Putnam spent 31 years in law enforcement, working Narcotics,...

Ex-cop and ex-con Bruno Johnson and the fearless Marie have illegally rescued children from abusive homes and smuggled them to a safe haven in Costa Rica. As the action moves from The Disposables to The Replacements and then to The Squandered, Bruno and Marie are repeatedly forced back to the United...

Reminiscent of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch The Early Years: Book One 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...

Bruno Johnson, a tough street cop, member of the elite violent crime task force, feared by the bad guys, admired by the good, finds his life derailed when a personal tragedy forces him to break the law.  Now he's an ex-con and his life on parole is not going well.  He is hassled by the police at...

Michael Connelly is a fan, calling The Replacements: "...gritty street poem recited by a voice unalterably committed to redemption and doing the right thing in a wrong world." Bruno Johnson, ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department and an ex-convict, is hiding out...

"Bruno Johnson believes so passionately in justice that he’ll lie, cheat, and steal to achieve it—and he’ll pulverize anybody who gets in his way.”—Booklist The Squandered propels Bruno into an emotionally charged high-speed chase as he and Marie leave their rescued kids in Costa...

Veteran Sheriff’s deputy Will Donnelly gets nailed for stealing $300,000 of drug money and donating it to a charity in memory of his late wife Debra Ann, his punishment is exile—a one-way transfer to the desert wastelands surrounding Joshua Tree station. Will, under the command of a crooked captain...

The Bun Boy of Baker is the story of three women and a deputy sheriff who have fled society to a small desert town to escape their lives and their vices. The deputy, a sexual compulsive, is there to hide from women and an awful mistake that haunts him. Of the other three, one is out for revenge, one...

Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and John Sandford Bruno Johnson, a young and inexperienced LA County Deputy Sheriff, is trying to balance his life as the single father of a four-year-old daughter and his responsibilities as a cop in the Violent Crimes Unit. When he and his impetuous partner...

American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced...

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays...

These poems go into everyday life problems and how some overcome and some who had enough remove themselves from society. As you read through these poems, itll take you through lifes disturbances and the places that they exist. Some you can control, and some you cannot. You just have to wonder how we manage to reach our aspirations and dreams.

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