Play Book Tag discussion

The last of the trilogy and possibly my favorite. VooDoo the K-9 that is. Maybe the story too. It's also chockful of cultural detail and history that just added to the experience.

Rory and his K-9 VooDoo are competing in the world series of trained K-9 competitions in the Czech Republic when he notices VooDoo has fixated on Sabrin, sitting in the stands and wiggling a pink water bottle with VooDoo's name emblazoned on it to get Rory's attention. Never having seen her before, he ignores her, until that is she shows up without warning but acting like she should be expected at the camp he and Ridge, who is also competing with this dog Zeus, have set up a few miles away. Rory and VooDoo are part of the same elite private security company as Ridge and Zeus, with Rory's background being Australian Commandos. What follows is Rory, VooDoo and Sabrin working to rescue 26 hostages taken in Slovakia who has warned the US and any private US companies to leave the rescue to them. Sabrin is a linguist and translater, working for the CIA though that is not known to Rory for a while. Of course he has his suspicions. Sabrin happens to be headed to Slovakia for vacation and her Babka's birthday, allowing them to sneak in as tourists, acting like a young couple. No need to fake the chemistry as sparks flew from their first setting eyes on each other.

Again we have a set of wonderful characters, a great dog, and a layered plot with a finale that you figure out along with the characters. You also get here a really superb layer of cultural and historical information about both Slovakia and Norway. The food descriptions alone had me salivating as they spoke to my German roots.

I'm not sad the trilogy has ended - the author has several series and trilogies loosely connected in this world. I'll be busy.

Miss Lola appreciated the 4 woofs!