Racing to rescue a child Danger heats up in the Military K-9 Unit series A little boy is missing, and it’s up to search-and-rescue K-9 handler Ava Esposito and her dog to find him…before the Red Rose Killer does. FBI special agent Oliver Davison is hot on the trail of the escaped convict and joins forces with Ava. But when the killer turns his crosshairs on them, Oliver must protect them all … must protect them all before time runs out.
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this is a very good story, I have read all of the series so far. love Rosco Ava is a member of the K9 unit but she was a pilot, Oliver is FBI and they have to work together to try to find a young boy. if you have read any of the other stories you have to read this story.
RESCUE OPERATION by Lenora Worth is fifth book in the Military K-9 Unit series. It’s the well-crafted, edge of your seat suspense story of Senior Airman Ava Esposito, a Special Forces Military Working Dog hander, working as part of a team, including her golden coated Labrador retriever K-9 named Roscoe, to find a missing seven year old – Turner, son of Colonel Gregory and Mrs. Marilyn Johnson.
The story is based around Canyon Air Force Base in the Hill Country of Texas. Shortly into the operation Ava has a face to face encounter with Boyd Sullivan, also known as the Red Rose Killer, for the red rose he left as his calling card, and who had escaped from prison where he was serving time for his many crimes. This search and rescue mission has just taken on a whole new urgency factor. They need to find the missing little boy before Boyd find him and while keeping everyone safe from the Red Rose Killer.
FBI Special Agent Oliver Davison has history with Boyd – one of his victims had been his fiancé. He was in on the hunt, arrest and seeing Boyd sent to prison. His escape left Oliver with a strong need to see that he be recaptured and returned to prison to pay for the crimes he’d done and before he can follow through on more of his red rose threats – including one given to Ava.
Although they butt heads at the beginning, it soon becomes apparent that the two cases – finding Tanner and recapturing Boyd – more than likely are intertwined thus the need for them to work together. They both soon learn of the other’s strengths, which only rises the admiration for the work they both do, and their faults, which makes me both human. Together they make an admirable team and with Roscoe added to the mix in they are determine to get their man. They are also hoping that they can find the many K9’s turned loose during one of Boyd’s crime sprees. Along the way, that admiration turns just a little bit more personal. Can they mix work with friendship? If they can work through their individual pasts so that they might even be able to see a way to becoming just a bit more. How many times can Boyd stay just out of their grasp? Will they find Tanner and reunite him with his parents?
RESCUE OPERATION is a great, clean read that will have you turning pages as you’re hoping they find the little boy safe and sound, anxious about Boyd’s presence wondering who will have the upper hand when their paths cross, and hoping that two strong willed people will figure out that they are perfect team – both on and off work. Lenora Worth kept the excitement brewing while the romance simmers in the background all wrapped in a thread of faith that adds up to a perfect recipe for an inspirational romantic suspense story that you will not only love, but will want to share so others can read it as well. It can most definitely be read as a standalone book even though part of a series. Just know that the Red Rose Killer is a part that is woven through the whole series. Each book in the series has its own mysteries and romances that make them readable as individual books. I give this author and this book a great big FIVE STARS!