Ryder Creed, a
former K-9 handles in Afghanistan and Iraq, now trains rescue dogs.
He thought he had put his experience in Iraq and Afghanistan behind
him when Peter Logan, a platoon leader he worked with, calls to cash
in a favor. A serious landslide in North Carolina has buried a DARPA
research facility. He wants Creed to bring his dogs and find the
center and any survivors.
Maggie O'Dell, an
FBI agent who has worked with Creed before, gets the same call. Her
current boy friend, Ben Platt, a Colonel at DAPA, asks her to got to
North Carolina and find out what's happening. She agrees, partly
because she'd secretly like to work with Creed again.
The conditions in
North Carolina are horrendous. The rain keeps coming, the site is a
mass of mud, and dangerous debris is everywhere. But the conditions
are not the only problem Creed and O'Dell have to contend with. One
of the first bodies they find is a scientist who wasn't killed in the
landslide. He has a bullet in his head. Now they have to find out
what was really going on at the facility.
I loved this
mystery. O'Dell and Creed are characters that keep you interested in
the case, but also in their attraction to each other. However, the
real stars are the lovable rescue dogs. I knew very little about the
training and use of rescue dogs, but the author does a good job of
describing both without being heavy handed. The dogs themselves steal
the show, hard-working, friendly, and very well trained.
The chapters are
short and move between the scenes of action from committee hearings
in Washington, DC, to the disaster area in North Carolina. This not
only makes for fast paced reading, it pulls you along to find out
what happens next in each thread of the plot.
I highly recommend
this book if you love a good action-adventure story with a mystery.
Even if you're not a dog-lover, I think you'll fall in love with
these intelligent animals.
I reviewed this book
for the Amazon Vine Program.
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