Peter Chaplin, a veteran of the Dog Section of Avon & Somerset Police, has many memories form his time with the police, but none stick in his mind as much as the five glorious years he spent with the 'Hound from Hell' – a legendary German Shepherd named Major. This book highlights some of the amazing criminal adventures that Peter and Major confronted together from 1979 to 1984.

Told using photographs, extracts from Peter's diaries and tales and anecdotes from fellow officers, A Job With Bite will take you on a roller coaster experience of crime-fighting in the '70s, '80s and '90s in and around Bristol.

Signed copies now available to buy from the SilverWood bookshop.

232 pages with 8 pages of colour plates.

Peter Chaplin is sixty-three years of age and was born and bred in Bristol. He has been married to Linda for over forty years and they have four children and eight grandchildren. He has lived in Lockleaze, Bristol, for over fifty years.

Peter was in the police (Bristol then Avon and Someset) for twenty-eight years, twenty of which were spent as a dog handler, based at Bower Ashton and Almondsbury Motorway. Since retiring in 1998 he has been involved with buildings and facilities, and for the past eleven years has been the manager of an office block in the centre of Bristol.

Since 1989 Peter has been a born-again Christian and attends Westbury-on-Trym Baptist Church.

A Job with Bite is Peter’s first book.

Download the Advance Information sheet for A Job with Bite here.

Read about A Job with Bite in the Bristol Post here.

'A gritty, funny and nostalgic memoir that offers a unique glimpse into life on the Avon & Somerset Constabulary.' Read the full Bristol Post article here.

'Crimefighter who really put the bite on criminals.' Click here for the full Bristol Times review.

Author Peter Chaplin speaks to Thornbury Townswomen's Guild. See the full Gloucestershire Gazette article here.