Path to Justice
by Jim Dutton
Path to Justice exposes the harsh realities and necessary sacrifices to build a case against a ruthless Mexican drug cartel, Baja Norte Familia. Insights and strategies as to conducting a complex international investigation and trying a drug distribution, money laundering, and murder conspiracy case in federal court are interwoven with perilous confrontations with the cartel. You live the case with the career prosecutor and veteran agents—how they think and the banter they use to get by. Path to Justice takes you from the Montanan-Canadian woods and the ice-bound lakes of Glacier National Park and the plains of Kansas to the beaches of San Diego and the hills above Rosarito Beach, Baja California Norte. Lead prosecutor and chief of the federal task force, Nick Drummond, struggles with personal demons and his relationship with task force agent Ana Schwartz in his efforts to convict the heads of the Familia cartel. In Drummond's path to justice, he faces the ethical dilemma of...