THE  NEW GUARD, Book #9 in the Danger Dogs series, follows our intrepid safety, health, and environmental consultants into more international and national problems that require their expertise.
 
In a unique genre of actual fiction, the consultants of Cape Safety, Inc. and their West Coast enterprise, Cliff Safety, Inc., chase headline incidents that may have made a single news cycle but were then quickly left behind for more breathtaking "Breaking News." THE NEW GUARD rekindles those events with details beyond the sound bite you possibly heard. You'll read unusual stories about:car carrier ship fires
the dark day in Boston in 1780
blue economies
seed banks
fast fashion frailties
ship breaking with water
rain forest destruction
energy storing concrete
sexual harassment solutions
Amazon delivery driver training
a fire on a New England island
amazing plastic-eating fungi
Fenway Park farming
living seawalls
armoring Manhattan
skateboard failures
Codfather matters, and much more.
Any trip with a Cape Cod-based CSI consultant will prove interesting, educational, and informative.

Richard Hughes closed his 24-seat safety training center on Cape Cod to become a retired student of modern worldwide shipping operations. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation then obtained a Masters Degree in Business from Lesley University. While at MMA, he sailed on the Bay State, the Lightning, and the Mobil Lube. His books include the Cape Safety, Inc. ¿ Danger Dogs Series¿a collection of 9 novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch bi-coastal safety consulting firm. His popular non-fiction Deep Sea Decisions is an expose of maritime tragedies. He and his wife, Lavinia M. Hughes, have co-authored Newtucket Island, Training Ship, and Cape Car Blues. He lives and writes in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA, with his wife.