This Crais novel for once does not have Elvis Cole and Joe Pike as the main protagonist. Instead, we have a dog, Maggie, trained to sniff bombs in Afghanistan and a young, rookie cop, Scott James. Both are mangled in the line of duty, thus the cop after recuperating trains with the dog after both have recovered from injuries. Both are suffering from the traumas of their duty, the dog losing its leader, the cop his partner, a young woman. Their tragedies bring them together, as the dog fills the void in the cop's life, giving him something to care about. As he trains the dog and works with him, he is also secretly gathering info about who it was that shot both him and his partner. That's the major two threads of the story, the building relationship between man and dog, and the search for the killers. Spoiler...he avenges the killing of his partner, with the help of Maggie. And after reading this, I told my wife I wanted a dog. She just laughed. Ah men and their dogs.
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