Larry and the dog people - J. Paul Henderson

After a chance meeting with Ms Parker, academic Larry MacCabe adopts a Bassett Hound and joins Ms Parker and friends at the park becoming, for the first time, the member of a gang. As their strange friendship develops, Larry puts the finishing touches to a paper on the Desert Land Act of 1877 and arranges for Wayne, a challenged young man he befriended in the park, to house-sit while he delivers his paper in Jerusalem. Things don't go to plan, and on his return Larry is charged with conspiring to blow up a church and complicity in the deaths of four people. How will Larry get out of this one?