2012DeclassifiedSleeping Dogs: The Awakening
The president has been marked for assassination — by his own handlers. The only force that can stop it this late is a unit the government swears doesn’t exist.
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Intercept · 1386 A.D.
“It is nought good a slepying hound to wake” — Chaucer
Nature built them to survive. The government trained them to kill.
Then tried to destroy them. Bad move.Eight techno-political thrillers following the deadliest covert-operations unit America ever built — and buried. The ninth arrives November 2026. For readers of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and David Baldacci.
Operations board
Current status
File SD-09 · Releasing November 2026
Hidden Dragons,
Sleeping Dogs
Nature made the Sleeping Dogs the slow way. Beijing has decided to skip the wait — gene-edited super-soldiers, built with CRISPR and quietly moved inside the United States. The engineered against the born.
Manuscript115,000 words
StatusComplete — in editing
Latest release
Spare Me, Kill the Rest
File SD-08 · 2024
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8
Sleeping Dogs novels · plus two stand-alone thrillers
The ninth arrives November 2026
Book One — ebook from US$0.99 →
The ninth arrives November 2026
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Sample chapter · File SD-09
The next threat.
The first chapter.
Step inside Hidden Dragons, Sleeping Dogs before its November 2026 release. Read Chapter One, “Birthplace of Dragons,” or watch the new trailer.
Case files SD-01 – SD-08
The series
Eight novels, in reading order. Hover a file to declassify the summary.
2012Declassified
2015DeclassifiedEndangered Species
A standing directive orders the Dogs terminated with extreme prejudice. A vengeful FBI agent, a rogue Russian operative, and a monstrous hunter named Maksym intend to deliver.
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2016DeclassifiedThe Year of the Dog
Terror cells embedded across the homeland. A pending strike that would leave the nation defenseless. Whelan must get the quarreling Dogs back in the field before the clock runs out.
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2017DeclassifiedThe Dogs of War
Six nuclear devices on American soil — the first aimed at Los Alamos. The Society of Adam Smith needs the Dogs reunited, while Whelan’s rogue brother Maksym hunts his family.
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2018DeclassifiedA Deadlier Breed
Beijing has armed jihadists with five tactical nukes bound for U.S. cities. To avoid catastrophic panic, an unconventional president quietly wakes the Dogs.
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2019DeclassifiedThe Devil’s Litter
How were they found? How were they forged? And what happens when the government that built the deadliest unit in history decides to erase it?
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2022DeclassifiedThe People’s Republic of America
Washington believes it shares a pact with Beijing to divide the world order. Beijing has other plans: an unstoppable pathogen, the world’s best assassins — and Whelan’s wife as bait.
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2024DeclassifiedSpare Me, Kill the Rest
A third-party candidate the Deep State can’t control. A leader framed for murder and buried in a secret supermax. The Dogs must break Whelan out — then pull off an impossible rescue.
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In honor of those who were recruited, forged, and betrayed
6 active · 9 stood down · 4 did not survive selection
19
Recruited
15
Survived training
6
Remained
Department X · Designation Homo maximus
“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
Kipling · The Second Jungle Book
Author of record
A recovering attorney with a talent for conspiracies
John Wayne Falbey wasn't named after the Duke — a nurse at hospital checkout insisted every child needed two given names, and his flustered father, John, offered his own.
A native Floridian, he switched to pre-law ten minutes into an introductory calculus class, graduated from Vanderbilt Law, and practiced transactional law before crossing into real estate development. That experience is what lends his conspiracies their uncomfortable plausibility.
The full story →“Falbey offers a bold, gritty spy thriller”
Kirkus Reviews · Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening