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The Understudy
Even the largest dog comes to heel ...
Banshee is a hundred-and-twenty-pound Rottweiler. After a lifetime of battles in a savage dogfighting ring known as the Pit, she hates humans. Wouldn’t you?
Stan Kane is a retired Green Beret. He loves dogs. Went to war with them. Prefers them to people.
So when Stan learns of Banshee and the Pit hidden up in the Georgia mountains, he goes undercover to take down the Pit and bring Banshee home.
The only problem? Retired Green Beret Stan Kane can’t act worth a damn.
When his cover gets blown Stan turns to the TROUPE, a secretive team of vigilantes with vast resources. He asks for intel and weapons. They also offer the Understudy. Stan says no. He wants to do this himself.
But if Stan gets caught there’s no torment the Pit’s pack won’t inflict. So the TROUPE unleashes the Understudy, and the result is a battle the likes of which the Pit has never seen.
Banshee is a hundred-and-twenty-pound Rottweiler. After a lifetime of battles in a savage dogfighting ring known as the Pit, she hates humans. Wouldn’t you?
Stan Kane is a retired Green Beret. He loves dogs. Went to war with them. Prefers them to people.
So when Stan learns of Banshee and the Pit hidden up in the Georgia mountains, he goes undercover to take down the Pit and bring Banshee home.
The only problem? Retired Green Beret Stan Kane can’t act worth a damn.
When his cover gets blown Stan turns to the TROUPE, a secretive team of vigilantes with vast resources. He asks for intel and weapons. They also offer the Understudy. Stan says no. He wants to do this himself.
But if Stan gets caught there’s no torment the Pit’s pack won’t inflict. So the TROUPE unleashes the Understudy, and the result is a battle the likes of which the Pit has never seen.
148 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 20, 2021
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About the author
Jason Cannon
3 books1 followerJason Cannon is a best-selling author and publisher, as well as an award-winning actor, director, playwright, improviser, and teacher. He has an MFA in Directing, a Masters in Drama, and a quarter-century in professional theatre. As an actor, Jason has portrayed everything from a rapping dinosaur to a robot and from a hitman to Hamlet. He has written plays about J.R.R. Tolkien and Aesop, directed plays about hiccuping dragons and foul-mouthed puppets, and once while improvising he was attacked by a stage light. Jason has been a voracious reader his whole life and dreamt of being a writer even since his story about a tiny hero riding a grasshopper won the Principal's Prize in 4th grade and was taped up on the wall of his school's hallway. In 2022 Jason pivoted to full-time writer and publisher. You can check out his company's catalogue (or even submit for publication!) over at ibis-books.com.
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September 8, 2022
Loved this book and yet it showed the inhumanity and vileness and ruthlessness of dog fighting and how it is firmly entrenched into some of the southern culture and is to be rooted out of our present culture. The story is wonderfully written and explores the thoughts and feelings of Stan and his Understudy.
November 15, 2022
Heart warming
A rather different all action story involving some very interesting characters and gadgets. Well written and great plot. Excellent. Top marks
A rather different all action story involving some very interesting characters and gadgets. Well written and great plot. Excellent. Top marks
May 13, 2023
Loved It!
Too bad this is just a short story. As it ended, I was wishing for more. Time to go see if the follow-up is out, yet. Thanks, Jason, for this introduction.
Too bad this is just a short story. As it ended, I was wishing for more. Time to go see if the follow-up is out, yet. Thanks, Jason, for this introduction.
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