The Call of the Child
A dognapped service dog. A boy who needs him. Two hundred miles of desert between them.
The beloved duo returns.
On a leave of absence from LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, are embracing the pleasures and chaos of parenthood. The last of Sirius’s litter—a “golden shepherd” named Archie, who combines Sirius’s fierce loyalty with a golden retriever’s gentle warmth—is adopted as a service dog for Ethan, a young boy who sustained a traumatic brain injury in the car accident that killed his parents.
But not long after returning to police work, Gideon and Sirius must take on a case all too personal to both of them: Archie has been dognapped. As the media spotlights Ethan’s pleas for Archie’s return, Gideon and Sirius untangle clues that lead them far from the location of the golden shepherd’s abduction and into the center of a criminal operation.
More than 200 miles from home, Archie fights to make his way back to Ethan across the barren, dangerous Sonoran Desert, driven to risk his life to answer the call of the child…
The Call of the Child is the seventh novel in the Gideon and Sirius series.