The Reckless
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Publisher Description
Best-selling author of the Bruno Johnson Crime 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" —Booklist
Bruno Johnson, a young and inexperienced L.A. 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, Ned Kiefer, are put on loan to the FBI to help out with a "special problem," Bruno finds himself in a real bind.
The FBI hands Bruno and Ned a case that the Bureau prefers not to touch—a group of teenage criminals that are being run by a nefarious criminal known as the Darkman. Bruno discovers the identity of the Darkman and is stunned to realize that he is the perpetrator from a lingering unsolved case—a triple homicide that continues to haunt Bruno.
The problem is how to stop the juvenile criminals without killing kids, and at the same time, avoid being killed by the kids—or by the Darkman—and keep his reckless partner Ned under control.
Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and Robert Crais
While all of the novels in the Bruno Johnson Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
The Disposables
The Replacements
The Squandered
The Vanquished
The Innocents
The Reckless
The Heartless
The Ruthless
The Sinister (coming February 2022)
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Putnam's sixth Bruno Johnson novel, the overstuffed sequel to 2018's The Innocents, further explores Bruno's years as a young L.A. County deputy sheriff. Johnson and his buddy, Ned Kiefer, are on loan from the violent crimes unit to the FBI, which tosses them several preliminary crimes that Bruno solves with preternatural aplomb and that reconnect him with an old love, FBI special agent Chelsea Miller, with whom he once worked on a case that went bad. Finally, the Feds reveal the special problem that Bruno and Ned have really been chosen to handle: finding a way to arrest and charge Amos Leroy Gadd, who is recruiting children to rob banks in an effort to isolate himself from the crimes. Bruno and Ned must stop the robberies, preferably without hurting the children, and tie them back to Gadd. As the pace picks up, the plot takes some startling twists. Putnam, a retired cop, uses his long experience in law enforcement to good effect, but some readers will feel he covers too much territory too fast. Agents: Mike and Susan Farris, Farris Literary.
