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Definition
- Canis (ka'nis) n. Zool. The genus including the dog (wild and domestic), the coyote, the wolf, the fox, the jackal, and
the dingo.
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- About CANIS
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- CANIS Chapter One
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at 1-800-823-9235
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copy send $16.45 to:
J. M. Armstrong
P. O. Box 841721
Houston, TX
77284-1721
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Take a peek at my newest book!
Still under construction.
"INDEX of SUSPICION"
WELCOME...
to a doggone good mystery!
In Houston, Texas the health department's much maligned Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care is run by Dr. Duncan A. MacDonell.
It was supposed to be his retirement job, his opportunity to put on the brakes, to slow down, to take a well-earned respite from the intensity, the uncertainty, and the seemingly unending challenges of twenty-six years of military service. Now, nearing the close of his professional career, he finds himself to be nothing more than a big city's head dog catcher... and he's in trouble!
Unfortunately Doctor Mac has stumbled onto the world's
worst job, in what many might consider the world's gentlest profession. The good doctor has spent a lifetime with animals. Spanning both oceans, he has worked
with quick-tempered attack dogs, and sensitive drug and bomb detection dogs.
Off duty he has judged flashy German field trial dogs, and treated primped-up American show breeds. Both in and out of uniform he has attended a myriad of other species. He's performed semen tests on those big cherry-red Santa Gertrudis bulls, taken blood from the ear vein of more than one elephant. He has also castrated a bobcat, x-rayed a snake, delivered calves, colts, lambs, and puppies. He's chased coyotes by helicopter. He's set the fractured femur of
a fluttering parakeet in Italy, lassoed a cantankerous zebu ox, and vaccinated thousands of plodding water buffalo in the steamy jungles
of Thailand. In truth, he's been chased, bitten, kicked, scratched, stomped, and gored.
Doctor Mac thought he was ready for anything...but he was wrong!
CANIS is a wild and woolly thriller set on the streets of Houston. It's
a tale chock-full of lively, eccentric, and dangerous characters and teeming with animal lore...loose livestock in the big city...coyotes on the golf courses...and killer dogs running amok. Ironically it's all the wild people who consort to drive Doctor Mac crazy...and force his prim little wife to consider packing heat.
Above, on the left, the CANIS Chapter One link will take you to the first page of chapter one so you can begin reading this mystery thriller.
If you decide you would like to purchase CANIS the "Where to Purchase" links provide a choice of several online bookstores.
If you hate this book, tell me.
If you like it, tell a friend.
If you love it, tell everybody.
Notice!
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission
will soon transcribe CANIS into a talking book for the blind.
And readers who are senior citizens
may also find this link interesting!
Notice!
The second novel in this series
INDEX OF SUSPICION
will be released in January 2002.
Link at the top of this page.
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