Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog

From Barnes & Noble"I am your Guardian; you are my Protector." The relationship between a Marine K9 handler and his dog is, by its very nature, on a different level than those between the average person and his or her pet.
— Lisa Echenthal





Lily BuranaWhile the jargon-heavy dialogue and tight pacing suggest that Sergeant Rex is meant to be a dog book for manly men, it's also a moving portrait of a relationship between battle buddies that transcends gender and species.
—The Washington Post


Publishers WeeklyFormer Marine Dowling and coauthor Lewis recount the adventures and misadventures of Dowling and his German shepherd partner, Rex, as they train for and deploy to Iraq as one of the first military K9 teams to see combat since Vietnam in this touching memoir.