A Bone to Pick - Gephardt, Jan

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Résumé :
Too valuable to kill? Oh, but that was then. XK9 Rex was bio-engineered and cyber-enhanced to be the most perfect law enforcement canine ever created. Transmondian spymaster Col. Wisniewski thought he could turn him into the most perfect weapon. But Rex had other plans. Wisneiwski couldn't bend him to his will. The Colonel would have killed any other dog, but Rex was too valuable. Instead, Rana Station paid a literal fortune to add him and his XK9 Pack to the Orangeboro Police Department. Now Rex and his Pack are working detectives on the trail of a criminal gang that blows up spaceships - and Rana Station has recognized XK9s as uplifted sapient beings. That means it's illegal to buy them, so they've stopped paying that literal fortune. And this gives Col. Wisniewski a new license to kill. How far must Rex go, to dodge his old enemy's deadly intent and also crack the case?

Biographie:
Jan S. Gephardt (pronouns: she/her) is a science fiction novelist, fantasy artist, and publisher from Kansas City. Her XK9 books feature a pack of uplifted police dogs who live far in the future inside a habitat space station in a different star's planetary system. Jan's books include a novella, The Other Side of Fear, and two novels so far in the XK9 Bones Trilogy: What's Bred in the Bone and The Other Side of Fear. She's near completion on Book 3, Bone of Contention. She and sister G. S. Norwood co-founded Weird Sisters Publishing LLC in 2019. Jan is the Chief Cat-Herder and Art Director for Weird Sisters, which means she is in charge of book production, illustration commissions, and all marketing....

Sommaire:
Too valuable to kill? Oh, but that was then. XK9 Rex was bio-engineered and cyber-enhanced to be the most perfect law enforcement canine ever created. Transmondian spymaster Col. Wisniewski thought he could turn him into the most perfect weapon. But Rex had other plans. Wisneiwski couldn't bend him to his will. The Colonel would have killed any other dog, but Rex was too valuable. Instead, Rana Station paid a literal fortune to add him and his XK9 Pack to the Orangeboro Police Department. Now Rex and his Pack are working detectives on the trail of a criminal gang that blows up spaceships - and Rana Station has recognized XK9s as uplifted sapient beings. That means it's illegal to buy them, so they've stopped paying that literal fortune. And this gives Col. Wisniewski a new license to kill. How far must Rex go, to dodge his old enemy's deadly intent and also crack the case?...