Hard to review, it is mostly about a government cover up from 50 years ago but just happens to revolve around the mudslide that destroyed the facility they were using for experiments. I don't especially like to read that kind of story but I like these characters and I know Kava can write a better story so I'll still give it 3.5
I really liked this book. It is always great to read about characters that you have met in previous books. My favorite parts in this book are about the dogs that are trained and used to recover people and things. Alex Kava makes these sweet four legged animals come alive with her descriptions. She nails their emotions and you can feel their love and devotion.
I look forward to more Ryder Creed books. Alex Kava is a wonderful writer.
I look forward to more Ryder Creed books. Alex Kava is a wonderful writer.
The first book in the Ryder Creed series, Breaking Creed, knocked my socks off, and this second installment is a pageturner, too-- even though readers who don't like cliffhangers are probably going to be furious. If you enjoy being immersed in the world of working dogs, Alex Kava's series is for you. A veteran of Afghanistan, Ryder Creed has a compound in the Florida Panhandle where he trains search and rescue dogs. What earns him a lot of Brownie points from me is the fact that the dogs he trains are rescues themselves. In Silent Creed, we get to see two of his best dogs at work, a Jack Russell Terrier named Grace and Bolo, part Rhodesian Ridgeback and extremely protective of Ryder.
The plot is based on fact and may get readers' blood boiling since it does concern how cavalier some of these secret research facilities are with their test subjects. Kava also brings home how dangerous it is to work search and rescue in a landslide area.
Besides the dogs and the storylines, I enjoy these books for the characters. It was good to see FBI agent Maggie O'Dell again because she works well with Ryder Creed, who's much more comfortable with dogs than he is with humans (although he has a tough time keeping his eyes off Maggie... and vice versa). I also hope to see a minor character named Daniel Tate again.
Even though I did find the ending rather jarring, I have the feeling that the character involved is going to figure prominently in some future book, and I look forward to the return engagement.
The plot is based on fact and may get readers' blood boiling since it does concern how cavalier some of these secret research facilities are with their test subjects. Kava also brings home how dangerous it is to work search and rescue in a landslide area.
Besides the dogs and the storylines, I enjoy these books for the characters. It was good to see FBI agent Maggie O'Dell again because she works well with Ryder Creed, who's much more comfortable with dogs than he is with humans (although he has a tough time keeping his eyes off Maggie... and vice versa). I also hope to see a minor character named Daniel Tate again.
Even though I did find the ending rather jarring, I have the feeling that the character involved is going to figure prominently in some future book, and I look forward to the return engagement.
WOW! What a hang-on-by-the-tips-of-your-fingernails kind of book! So much action ...so much suspense.
Although this is a Ryder Creed novel, Maggie O'Dell plays a large role. In North Carolina, a huge landslide has caused countless problems, not the least being a government research facility being buried under tons of dirt and mud and muck.
Ryder and his dogs are called in to locate bodies .. dead or alive. Maggie's government friend asks her to get to the site in order to make sure things are done correctly. That's when she's told there have been a couple of bodies already found ... but the mudslide didn't kill them ... bullets did.
So many secrets ... so many lies ... so much classified information. Ryder and O'Dell are walking into a danger that goes back 50 years.
Excellent book! I made sure to read the first Creed book, mainly because I've been reading Alex Kava for years and have never been disappointed. And secondly because I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything. This one can stand alone ... but I would highly recommend reading Breaking Creed first. It's not a continuing story, but you pick up all the intrumental personal nuances that flow through both books.
This one won't be available until 7/15 and I'm already psyched to get the next one.
I won this digital ebook from First-To-Read. My many thanks to First To Read and the publisher!
Although this is a Ryder Creed novel, Maggie O'Dell plays a large role. In North Carolina, a huge landslide has caused countless problems, not the least being a government research facility being buried under tons of dirt and mud and muck.
Ryder and his dogs are called in to locate bodies .. dead or alive. Maggie's government friend asks her to get to the site in order to make sure things are done correctly. That's when she's told there have been a couple of bodies already found ... but the mudslide didn't kill them ... bullets did.
So many secrets ... so many lies ... so much classified information. Ryder and O'Dell are walking into a danger that goes back 50 years.
Excellent book! I made sure to read the first Creed book, mainly because I've been reading Alex Kava for years and have never been disappointed. And secondly because I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything. This one can stand alone ... but I would highly recommend reading Breaking Creed first. It's not a continuing story, but you pick up all the intrumental personal nuances that flow through both books.
This one won't be available until 7/15 and I'm already psyched to get the next one.
I won this digital ebook from First-To-Read. My many thanks to First To Read and the publisher!
This is Book #2 of the Ryder Creed series and was a good follow-up for #1. However, if you've not read #1, you could still follow the story. There is a "budding" romance between Ryder, a dog trainer, and Maggie O'Dell, an FBI agent, whom he has worked with previously on a missing persons case. I'd like to see them get together, but then again, this isn't supposed to be a romance novel; I think it's just that the characters are so well developed. So, all-in-all, it was a good story for a quick read where you don't need to concentrate hard or for very long. Maybe a good vacation book.
