A Male Doberman Named Esther: A Mordecai Glass Mystery

On the run from a motorcycle gang, an impulsive St. Louis private detective, Mordecai Glass, accepts an assignment in Shakespeare, Arizona, to rescue Dobermans from the Animal Research Center (ARC). The ARC controls the dogs using remote devices that connect to implanted electrodes and antennae between the ears. This Sight and Kill project is funded by the U.S. Army and provides jobs to more than half the town's residents. Even though he is deathly afraid of dogs, Mordecai takes the job to ...