A Borrowing of Bones by Paula MunierMercy and Elvis #1 and many to come, I hope! Elvis is a bomb-sniffing dog, retired when his partner is killed in Afghanistan. Mercy adopts him--or is it the other way around--and tries to retire graciously in the mountains of Vermont. But she's a restless soul and can't find it easy to sit still when explosive residues keep turning up in places where they never should have been.
Ms. Munier can write action like no author I've ever read. There are chapters where you can not stop going, even if the phone rings and the kettle boils over. Mercy and Elvis are truly tortured souls and you have to love them. As mentioned in another book about rescue dog handlers, a few years of hard training to run after your dog where ever he goes makes a person a little reckless, by normal standards. Possibly that's why the real handlers I've read about typically work in teams of three--the extra person is communicator, map-reader, and all-around helper.
Still, overlook a little reckless abandon and you still have to love these guys. Great work, Ms. Munier!
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