Dog Star

Tony Dodds has a new suit, an old handler, and a tiny window of opportunity.

The suit is dove-grey, bespoke, and tailored for a twelve-inch French bulldog. The handler is Nora Giles — the one person from his former life he's actually glad to see. And the window is biological: the longer Tony stays in this body, the less of him there'll be to bring back.

MI5 has a proposition. One mission, and they'll dedicate the full resources of the British government to reversing his condition. The mission: go viral, get cast in a Hollywood blockbuster, and use a film shoot in a Central Asian dictatorship as cover to infiltrate the inner circle of a rare-earth billionaire whose obsessive devotion to his dead dog has become a state religion.

What follows takes Tony from a Malibu beach wedding to the golden domes of Vlakistan, via an egomaniacal Irish Wolfhound, a guileless Doberman with Hollywood ambitions, a Taj Mahal-sized dog memorial, and a woman he's falling for in a body that makes it impossible.

*Dog Star* is a novel about time running out, and all the things you meant to say when you still had a human mouth.

**Book 2 of the Dog Rough Trilogy.**