A heartwarming and exciting story about perseverance, service, sacrifice and friendship and the amazing bond between man and his best friend. Magic comes in many forms. On a quest to discover new purpose and his place in the world, a wounded Native American veteran struggles to regain his edge. The bond between man and dog is timeless, but the dog whisperer shares a mystical connection that defies explanation. Dakota Dixon is a complicated blend of comical prankster and master of irreverence. An unlikely recipient of a rare gift that is highly revered by his people, he is out to prove a radical new training concept for an intelligent K9 warrior. Treated as an outcast on the reservation, Dakota's life has been about trying to fit in. His life journey has led him toward using his powers to fulfill his destiny as a dog whisperer. He believes doing so will bring him the acceptance he craves, but his destiny can only come at a steep price. Dakota doesn't fully grasp the power he possesses; mainly using it to enlist his trusty canines in pranks against his tormentors. Serving in Afghanistan, the pranks continue to provide relief from the stresses of long deployments. After suffering traumatic injuries, he faces a medical discharge and a long road to recovery. In an odd twist of fate, he meets Keith Barnes and his Collie, Jack; turned therapy dog. Keith encourages Dakota to test his training concepts on the mischievous Collie. After joining an elite INTERPOL unit, Dakota becomes entangled in a web of espionage, international intrigue, and covert operations. The team embarks on a high stakes, midnight raid to an abandoned castle in the mountains of Romania. With little time to avert a government coup, he and Jack must combine training and Dakota's unusual and untested powers to prove themselves. To achieve success he must decide if he is willing to pay the price foretold by his grandfather, as he discovers more than one path to achieve his destiny.
About the Author: Kevin Brett has been owned by and loved Collies all his life. As a young child, his family had a humongous mahogany Collie named Macintosh. Later, in his teen years, his family had a sable and white Collie, named Piney Branch Lindsay Lad. His current Collie is a tri-color, named Captain Jack Sparrow. Kevin works with numerous Collie, Sheltie and dog rescues around the country helping them raise funds to further their rescue efforts. Numerous copies of Jack's story have been sold by these rescues to help raise money to save these animals in need. He is a certified enterprise architect and a former member of the Space Shuttle/Spacelab Team. Kevin is also a certified martial arts instructor with twenty years of martial arts training and teaching experience. He has authored several martial arts books. Kevin is also an experienced outdoors-man and survival practitioner. He and his wife Lana were two of the five co-founders of the United Karate Institute of Self-Defense, Incorporated in Alexandria, Virginia. He has taught martial arts, self-defense combat classes to local law enforcement, military and federal agents, focusing on realistic and practical application of techniques, strategies and training methods. He lives in Stafford, VA with his wife, three children and their mischievous Collie, Captain Jack Sparrow who is just "trouble with a tail."