78. Watchers, by Dean Koontz.

Travis is hiking when he stumbles across an unusual golden retriever. The dog seems far too intelligent, and ensures that he leaves the mountains immediately - but not before he catches a glimpse of something unusual that seems to be making the dog very uneasy. After adopting him, Travis sets about figuring out where the dog came from, and what the creature in the mountains was.

This book was fairly decent. Nothing particularly special, but a decent read that left me guessing at rather a few points. I found it fairly amusing that Dean Koontz read into things enough to know about certain dog diseases, but not to know that chocolate is fairly toxic for dogs. I thought a few of the ideas in this book were sort of beaten into the ground by the end of it (mostly because all the good characters are pristinely amazing and all the bad characters are hideous monsters), but it was a suitable way to while away some lunchtime hours.