The Vanquished

• 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, Career Criminal Division, FBI Violent Crimes Team, Criminal Intelligence, Internal Affairs
• Author won the following awards in law enforcement: Life Saving Award for saving a drowning paraplegic in a fast flowing aquaduct, and Medal of Bravery for a lone foot pursuit of an armed robbery suspect who grabbed a five-year-old child as a hostage.
• The Vanquished is the fourth book in the Bruno Johnson series (The Replacements, The Disposables, The Squandered)
• Previous books in the Bruno Johnson series, The Disposables and The Replacements, were one of only three finalists for the T. Jefferson Parker Mystery award (from SCIBA). Both were also finalists for the USA Best Book Awards in the Thriller category
• David Putnam lives in southern California