Silent Creed
Alex Kava
G.P. Putnam's Sons, Jul 28 2015, $26.95
ISBN: 9780399170775
In Haywood County, North Carolina, heavy rain leads to a deadly
landslide. The precipitation continues
hampering efforts to rescue trapped survivors.
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Logan
contacts K-9 CrimeScents Hannah Washington; specifically requesting her partner
rescue dog trainer Ryder Creed to search for forty-five missing and most likely dead people trapped in the
avalanche. Logan sends a jet to bring
Ryder and his dogs like America’s favorite canine Grace to the disaster. Ryder loathes Logan, who was his superior
officer in Afghanistan, but besides the business needing the commission there
might be people still alive and in need of rescue rather than recovery once the
inundation stops.
At the same time Ryder flies to North Carolina,
FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell comes to the scene as
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency scientists are among the
missing. Having recently worked together
(see Breaking Creed) Creed and O’Dell team up when they realize Mother Nature
did not kill a recovered corpse; a human committed the homicide.
The second Ryder Creed suspense
is a non-stop exhilarating thriller that grips the audience from the moment the
protagonist arrives at the deadly avalanche site (after a leisurely paced
opening) and never slows down. Filled
with twists and two types of mud (the other being flung by Congress) Alex Kava
authors a winning drama starring two heroes, a sneaky vile villain (mindful of
X Files’ Cancer Man) and show-stealing K9s.
Harriet Klausner
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