Synopsis from
Goodreads: When
a madman goes on a bombing spree, an FBI K-9 team of one woman and
her dog is the key to stopping him before more innocents die and
panic sweeps the Eastern seaboard.
Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk, are one of the FBI’s top K-9 teams certified for tracking and search and rescue. When a bomb rips apart a government building on the National Mall in Washington D.C., it will take all the team’s skill to locate and save the workers and children buried beneath the rubble.
More victims die and fear rises as the unseen bomber continues his reign of terror, striking additional targets, ruthlessly bent on pursuing a personal agenda of retribution. Meg and Hawk join the task force dedicated to following the trail of death and destruction to stop the killer. But when the attacks spiral wide and no single location seems safe any longer, it will come down to a battle of wits and survival skills between Meg, Hawk, and the bomber they’re tracking. Can they stop him before he brings the nation to the brink of chaos?
Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk, are one of the FBI’s top K-9 teams certified for tracking and search and rescue. When a bomb rips apart a government building on the National Mall in Washington D.C., it will take all the team’s skill to locate and save the workers and children buried beneath the rubble.
More victims die and fear rises as the unseen bomber continues his reign of terror, striking additional targets, ruthlessly bent on pursuing a personal agenda of retribution. Meg and Hawk join the task force dedicated to following the trail of death and destruction to stop the killer. But when the attacks spiral wide and no single location seems safe any longer, it will come down to a battle of wits and survival skills between Meg, Hawk, and the bomber they’re tracking. Can they stop him before he brings the nation to the brink of chaos?
Stats
for my copy:
Hardback, Kensington Books, 2016.
How
acquired: Fresh Fiction Box Not to Miss subscription
My
thoughts: This
book sucked me in and had me mesmerized from the first few pages. We
meet Meg and her search and rescue dog, Hawk, and immediately follow
them into a tense trek along a river and over a railroad trestle as
they track a killer. But that case is just our introduction into
Meg's world. In the second chapter Meg and Hawk are called back out
to a bomb site, and that's when the action really takes off.
The
book is also a fascinating crash course into the world of K-9 search
and rescue and the relationship between the dogs and their human
partners, a subject I'd not really read about until now. And one
flashback scene describing how Meg's first K-9 partner was killed in
the line of duty had me crying buckets.
In
addition to Meg and Hawk and their co-workers, we meet Clay McCord,
an investigative journalist with whom Meg makes an uneasy alliance,
newspaper reporters not normally being trusted and/or relied upon.
Great
writing, an intricate plot, three dimensional characters – it all
adds up to a gripping and emotional page turner. I can't wait for
book two!
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