Furtive Prey: A Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery (The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries)

Jessie and Landon are returning from their honeymoon in March when Landon is abruptly removed from their car by an HSI special agent and U.S. Marshals and taken away by helicopter. The cause: a stolen advanced organoid intelligence—an experimental biocomputer using lab-grown human brain tissue infused with AI—has disappeared from a DARPA lab in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Its signal is detected somewhere in Bitterroot County, creating a national security crisis that pits Sheriff Landon Reid against the Department of Homeland Security, with FBI regional director Special-Agent-in-Charge Andy Newsome caught between them. With conventional search methods failing to locate the device, authorities turn to Jessie and her pack of search dogs to find what seems impossible to recover. The novel follows a woman and her dogs as they attempt to track down the stolen technology against difficult odds. This book contains no sex, gore, or profanity, and no dogs die in the story. It is part of the Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries series, which continues beyond this installment.