Book Club:
Red Dog
Rising
Author: Jeff Schettler
“I want to tell you a story- a story of
a time in my life that I’m not sure I’ll
ever be able to talk about much in the
future. For some reason, time is of the
essence, and I have a task to complete.
I write this now, while I can, as my
fi ngers fl ow across the keys of my
laptop computer. They seem to know
the words I want to say before I even
think them.
This story, in many ways, is your typical
tale of a “boy and his dog.” The dog in we were both young and full of piss and
this story is my retired police K-9, Ronin. vinegar. ... Ronin and I were manhunters.
Ronin lies beside me as I type, and We were not the fi rst, and we are far from
perhaps it’s his thoughts that guide the the last. However, we were trained by the
tips of my fi ngers now. Ronin is eleven best, and Ronin’s record was stellar.
years old almost to the day on this cold
New Years Eve of 2006. His eyes are a Amazingly, both of our careers seemed to
little cloudy and his step far from sure, end almost simultaneously. ...”
yet Ronin still burns with life as cancer
seems to tear and gnaw at his body from So begins the story in the exciting new
the inside. He was not supposed to live release Red Dog Rising, which will be
past Christmas, yet he is still here with available in mid September ‘09.
me today. Maybe he is sticking around for
a little while just to make sure that I start “I can’t say I have ever read anything
writing his tale. like it. . . . Jeff’s recollections read like a
page turner of a detective novel,”
Ronin’s and my journey began when says Jamie Hyneman of TV’s Myth
he was just twelve weeks old, and we Busters Series.
lived and worked together for more than
a decade. I spent more time with Ronin Jeff is a retired police K-9 offi cer in
than I did with most people, including my California and was attached to the FBI’s
family. We worked throughout California Hostage Rescue Teams’ K9 Assistance
and other areas of the United States while Program.
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