I came across Breaking Creed (#1,162) by Alex Cava on a clever library display celebrating the "Dog Days of Summer". I had read a couple of entries in this thriller series about a Marine vet with PTSD who finds a new calling in training service dogs of all types - search and rescue, cadaver, sniffer dogs - and using them himself when tapped by various agencies along with his informal FBI profiler partner Maggie O'Dell, but had missed this particular book.
Ryder Creed is on a fairly routine assignment at the Atlanta airport with Grace, his favorite dog, searching for signs of a drug cartel's shipment rumored to be passing through Hartsfield when Grace alerts on a teenaged girl, not a piece of luggage. The girl begs Ryder to help her. On impulse, he smuggles her out of the airport, thus painting a target on his own back. The cartel wants its property back, and they will stop at nothing to reclaim it.
Meanwhile, FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell is called in by her boss to look into a body floating in the Potomac River. A tattoo on the badly decomposed body leads her to suspect a drug connection. Although her boss denies the possibility, a high-ranking Senator is in his office when Maggie goes to make her report. Soon she finds herself crossing paths with Ryder Creed...again.
It's a twisted tale of money, greed, and power. If deadly creepy-crawly creatures are the stuff of your nightmares, this is probably not a book you want to be reading at bedtime. But if you are the type of person who needs to find out what happens next, even if it means staying up all night, Breaking Creed will do the trick! This is a great series.
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