Joe Jennings
Joe Jennings

Joe Jennings has been a search and rescue dog handler in Northern Utah for 18 years. He and his dogs, Gunny and Stretch, have been on almost 100 search missions. They have been certified for avalanche, wilderness, and water search. 

Joe is a retired U.S. Marine and a Vietnam veteran.

Joe has written five books based on his experiences as a search dog handler and Marine. You can sign up to get updates about Joe's writing here.

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Ghosts of Iwo Jima: A story about battles, ghosts, and two very special dogs

(Sam and Gunny K9 Adventure Series Book 1)

On March 1st, 1945 five Marines were killed in one of the most horrific battles of World War II, and their bodies were never recovered. Finding these young men after almost seventy years seems an impossible task, but that’s what Tom Sanders plans to do. He has a historian with detailed knowledge of the battle and a crime scene investigator with...

Ghosts of the Buffalo Wheel

Book Two of the Sam and Gunny K9 Adventure Series

The Buffalo Wheel sits high up in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. This ancient stone circle has been sacred to the native people for thousands of years. But now, something has gone wrong. Sees Wolf, an Arapaho medicine man thinks he knows the problem, but he’ll need help to solve it. He’ll need some good dogs. Gunny and Luke are back together...

The Very First Dog: Book Three in the Sam and Gunny K9 Adventure Series

What is a dog? Where do dogs come from? What was it like before there were dogs? Thirteen-year-old Clay Webber is curious and full of questions. In his search for answers, he is joined by his Grandpa Sam’s search and rescue dog, Gunny. Together they begin to dream of a time fifteen thousand years ago when the future of the human race was in...