I must admit to being thoroughly impressed with Ms. Driscoll's command of knowledge of high-altitude rescue. I was immediately swept up with the story, having read only one previous book in this series didn't stop me from diving headlong in to the characters and plotline. An adventure from start to finish, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting a thrilling read. Now I have to go back and read her previous books, joy! I received an e-book from NetGalley in return for an unbiased review.

Meg Jenning and Hawke, joined by fellow agent Brian and his K-9 Lucy are off to search for a hijacked plane
in the Colorado Rockies along with two local search and rescue volunteers. The mission is to discover the
plane's actual location, aid potential survivors and capture the hijacker. Attitude sickness, avalanche conditions,
drop-off cliffs, frail rocks and the temperature are matters of concern not only for the agents but also the dogs.
Non stop action and the vivid descriptions keep one turning the pages until the conclusion.
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Book 9 in series but totally can read in any order. I really enjoyed this story. FBI K-9 handler Meg Jennings along with her canine partner Hawk. Call comes in to locate and rescue in the Elk mountains of Colorado. 3 weeks before her wedding. Promising everyone she'll be fine and back in time. Joining search and rescue to find survivors from a hijacked corporate jet crashed in mountains. Fighting her fear of heights, she manages to search and track to find the passengers. Then, tracking the hijackers, too.
I enjoyed this story and would like to read others in series. Thank you , Net Galley, the publishers, and author Sara Driscoll for allowing me to read the advance copy of this book.

FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, vie to rescue plane crash survivors from a Colorado mountain and contend with a hijacker determined to stop them! Great book and series! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one! This book had great suspense, intriguing, action packed, murder, mystery, a good who done it and a few crazy twists and turns! The story was very interesting! I definitely recommend reading this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!

For those who love pages and pages of detail with far less action, this one’s for you. Happily there’s a lot about the 2 dogs that are interesting and appealing. I. Found myself skimming a lot of the minutiae: I.e. signs, symptoms and treatment of a compound fracture (femur). If you love mountaineering and need information on athe technical aspects, this one’s for you.

I liked this book. Especially Hawk and Lacey. A plane wrecks in the Colorado mountains and it’s up to Meg and Brian to find it. The only thing I didn’t like. I felt like there was too much description of the Mountain and Mountain climbing. I found myself skimming a bit.

Another 6/5 IMO. This episode in FBI K-9 series references back to previous aspects of search & rescue skills and experiences without detracting from this latest exciting murder investigation.

Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, fly to Aspen, Colorado with their team partners Brian Foster & Lacey to search for survivors of a private jet's crash landing after a hijacking with shots fired. It's May and winter is very much in evidence on the 14,000' tall mountains. Terrifying risks include: altitude sickness, avalanche conditions and drop-off cliffs with frail rocks. To add urgency, Meg's getting married in 12 days.

This author knows how to explain situations in great detail without any chance of boredom. I can smell the forest, feel the chills, & learn a climbing term that begins each chapter.

Reading this novel multiple times I still find new things about climbing, characters' personalities, and peoples' ability to handle life.

Summit’s Edge is the ninth book in Sara Driscoll’s FBI K-9 series. Meg and Hawk, with Brian and Lacey, find themselves heading to the Colorado Rockies to assist in the search and rescue for any possible survivors from a plane brought down by a hijacker. They join two FBI agents from the Denver field office and two local Search and Rescue volunteers as they search in the mountains for the plane wreckage, potential survivors, and the hijacker. The details describing the rough terrain Meg and Brian and the dogs had to traverse and the hazards of the high altitude kept me engrossed from beginning to end. The books in this series can be read as standalones, but getting to know the characters and canines makes it that much more special! I love this series and highly recommend it!

A frightening hijack/plane crash begins this book and captures the reader immediately, Meg Jennings and her dog,Hawk, and Brian and his canine, Lacey, are called out to help with a difficult search in the Maroon Bells near Aspen, Colorado. Just finding the missing plane and any survivors is immensely challenging . The terrain and the altitude provide unique and terrifying difficulties .
The plane is carrying drug company executives responsible for an opioid crisis. These executives could have been found in current headlines.. The search morphs into a hunt for the hijacker and a passenger who is after him, ending in a terrifying confrontation!
As usual Sara Driscoll has done her homework. I learned about altitude sickness and all types of climbing equipment, including for dogs. I could envision their struggles, especially with her fear of heights.
These books draw you in with characters, situations, and sensible people handling horrendous situations in intelligent ways.

It's a good book. I just wish it didn't have the cuss words in it. Sorry, book would have been better to me if I didn't have to "bleep" out the cuss words. I just don't feel they are necessary in a book. But I do like how they detail the actual search and how they explain the different scenarios in a search.

This is such an intense book. I often felt as though I was climbing the mountain with them. There are some incredibly suspenseful scenes. The description of the scenery made me feel as though I was looking at it too. The ending was touching and beautiful. I highly recommend this book! I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced free copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

SUMMIT’S EDGE REVIEW

Summit’s Edge is the 9th book and an excellent addition to Sara Driscoll’s excellent FBI K-9 series. It can easily be read as a stand alone story, but for those of us familiar with the characters it is wonderful to revisit those relationships.
The story begins 2 weeks before FBI K-9 handler Meg Jennings is due to be married to her firefighter-paramedic fiancé. She and her K-9 partner Hawk, along with teammate Brian and his dog Lacey are sent to Colorado to help locate the crash site of a hijacked private airplane carrying the top executives of a pharmaceutical company. Unfortunately it is suspected the plane has crashed at high altitude in the Rocky Mountains, which poses serious health risks to the FBI teams who are not acclimated to high altitude search conditions, therefore risking high-altitude sickness and possibly even death. On top of that, Meg has a deathly fear of heights; something her boss doesn’t know.
Fortunately for the team, Meg’s fiancé realizes the potential dangers to both humans and dogs from high-altitude sickness and gets the ball rolling on medications and precautions they will need to take. The team heads to Colorado, meets up with the local FBI agents and Search & Rescue folks, and a massive effort is set in motion to try and locate the crash site of the hijacked aircraft. Time is critical both to help any survivors and if necessary to track down and capture the hijacker if he’s still alive.
Sara Driscoll’s vivid detail of the search conditions brings the hazards the teams face to life and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat throughout the search. Once the crash site and thankfully some survivors are located, the tension ratchets up when they discover the hijacker has survived, and one of the pharmaceutical company survivors has gone after him, bent on revenge.
This is the point where Hawk and Lacey shine as the team sets off tracking the two men. Hazards abound during the chase, including an avalanche that almost kills a team member. It’s a race against time as the team attempts to overtake the hijacker before he can make it out of the wilderness and disappear.
There isn’t a boring moment in this book. Not only is there constant external action, but throughout the chase Meg is dealing with her fear of heights in an ongoing internal battle. Woven throughout the story are a myriad of emotions; fear of failure, anxiety over the possibility of injury or illness, terror at almost losing a friend, and appreciation and love for the dogs, her friends, her fiancé, and her family. I was glad I started the book early in the day because I couldn’t put it down and read it all in one sitting.

Sara Driscoll has done it yet again! A truly excellent writer who continues to excell and and reach new heights with each book. I enjoy all of Sara’s books and series but I must confess this one is my favorite. I love the relationships between the dogs and their humans, but I love the relationships between all of the humans. The suspense kept me reading until I finished, I read it in one gulp. I highly recommend this book and any from Sara Driscoll.

A truly excellent Meg & Hawk story - It gripped me from start to finish. I highly recommend this read - some writers do not continue to expand and engage the reader not Sara Driscoll. Very well done again

Love this series, Hawk and Lacey and their skills are fascinating. Joining a search and rescue in the Colorado mountain's for a crashed plane, is not Meg’s favorite idea. Frightened of heights it’s challenging to her skills and her health. Brian and Lacey, as always, are on the deployment also. With a mere 12 days till her wedding to Todd, this is going to be extremely challenging.
The conditions, the cold, lack of oxygen, and climbing up mountains, had me grabbing a sweater, and holding my breath! I felt like I was there!
The only part I found difficult was so much dialogue about equipment, directions and technical plans, I tuned out on these parts.
The suspense at the end kept me reading on the edge of my seat.
All in all a very exciting read.

FBI K9 handler Meg Jennings and her partner Hawk are back for the 9th installment in the thrilling FBI K-9's series. Meg and Hawk are off to the peaks of Aspen, Colorado, where a hijacked plane has crashed somewhere in the Maroon Bells Wilderness area. Joined by fellow agent Brian, and his partner Lacey, Meg and Hawk are on the search for the plane, and any possible survivors. The unforgiving high altitude, and the harsh conditions of the search will test Meg and Brian, and their loyal dogs, as never before. But when every second counts, and lives are on the line, Meg and Brian must find a way to get the job done, preferably quickly, as Meg is supposed to marry her firefighter/emt fiance Todd Wells then. Will they find any survivors? Will Meg make it to her wedding? You will be up late reading every night to find out. The suspense and action are nonstop, and the detailed descriptions of what it takes to participate in a mountain rescue make you feel like you are right there on the mountain with the K-9's and their humans. Although you can read this as a stand alone - do yourself a favor and read the whole series. A strong female lead, dogs, excellent writing, and heart pounding suspense make this series and especially this book, a must read.

Full disclosure - I was a volunteer consultant for the Aspen based part of the book, as I have lived nearby for 35 years, and I recreate in the Maroon Bells Wildernexs often. However, I am not a climber, or even a serious hiker, so I wasn't much help on that part of the book! But Sara nailed all of it, despite my shortcomings. ,I have been a fan of the author and this series from book #1, so it was an honor to be a part of this one. Thank you to Sara Driscoll, Kensington Books, and Netgalley for the advanced reader copy.. This review is my honest opinion. but I must acknowledge that this book is my favorite of the series. How can it not be - it's set literally in my backyard, in the mountains that I love. But despite my clear bias - this is an excellent book in a fantastic series!

I love this series and I love the relationships between the dogs and their human. A bond that can’t be broken. Meg with Hawk and Brian with Lacey are sent into the mountains to find a plane crash. Once locating it they must look for survivors and the cause of the wreckage.
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Summit’s Edge, the latest in Sara Driscoll’s FBI K-9 series, is detailed, complex, and engrossing from beginning to end. The author takes us on an intense trek through the Colorado Rockies as Meg and Hawk, Brian and Lacey, along with two FBI agents, and two local Search and Rescue volunteers hunt and track potential survivors of a plane crash and the hijacker responsible for the disaster. I loved the story, was totally captivated, and enjoyed all l learned about trekking and climbing in the mountains.