Cats and Dogs - Paperback

by John Ouellet (Author)

Two uniquely disturbing tales of not-so-common and cuddly cats and dogs.

Cats takes seven members of Montana's Lincoln County Sheriff's Department to the remote and abandoned Sweet Grass Psychiatric Hospital for a week of uninterrupted tactical training. The hospital was closed a decade earlier after a suspicious fire that swept through the top floors, killing staff and patients. The legend of a mysterious Catman settles into the long lore of Sweet Grass Hills, intensified by the enormous clowder of cats that has populated the hills. A clash between reality and myth is about to take place on a very uneven playing field.

Dogs examines a world where conflict resolution is taken to a deep, dark place on Maine's Stryker John Island where Trent Aress has moved his wife and twin sons. Trent has left behind his high-stress Washington world as a lobbyist to establish a resort of the remote island. But his dream is not met with the enthusiasm he expected. The reserved islanders, especially his neighbor, Abe Carver, do not appreciate his plans to turn their island into a resort. While the islanders are content to let their feelings come through in words, Carver answers back with his pack of wild dogs that patrol the property line. Trent's response is a pack of his own. But no one can control a rogue weapon. The arm's war escalates to the level of MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction.