In Search of the Missing: Working with Search and Rescue Dogs

In Search of the Missing paints a vivid picture of the people and dogs behind search and rescue operations, the painstaking demands of training and qualification, and the highs and lows of a job where minutes can be the difference between saving someone's life or finding only their body.

Renowned as one of the most skilled search dog handlers on both land and sea, Mick McCarthy has over twenty years experience of searching for missing persons. He has experienced first-hand the dangers, thrills, tragedies and triumphs of search and rescue operations carried out on flood-swollen rivers and wild seas, in woodland and bogland, and on treacherous mountain peaks, often in the dead of night in hazardous conditions.

Originally from Knockraha in east Cork, Mick is the founder of the Cork Area Search and Rescue Dog Association and is a founding member of both the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Ireland and the British Overseas Disaster Unit.