—Thrillers in the Sleeping Dogs Series—

Sleeping Dogs—The Awakening

The president of the United States has been targeted for assassination—by his own handlers. The killing must look like the president’s political opposition is responsible. Desperate to prevent the crime, the opposition turns to the only force that can stop it this late in the game—a mysterious hunter-killer team known only as the Sleeping Dogs. This darkest of black ops units was formed to carry out America’s wettest, most politically incorrect missions abroad.

A seemingly unconnected car crash rapidly escalates into a series of plot twists and a rising body count involving Russian agents, crooked politicians, Ukrainian gangsters, a billionaire international arbitrageur, a secret society of patriots in the military and intelligence communities and the private sector, the CIA, a doggedly determined FBI agent, and the six most dangerous men on earth—the Sleeping Dogs. Brendan Whelan and the other Dogs relentlessly pursue the would-be assassins and their handlers. As they do, they uncover, layer by layer, a plot to bring America to her knees and impose a one-world government on the planet. The enemy is powerful, with access to unlimited funds and the ability to manipulate the rogue nations of the world. The problem? They’ve awakened the Sleeping Dogs.

Endangered Species

The world is descending into chaos. America is like a rudderless ship—its elected government gridlocked and ineffective. Rogue governments spit on Old Glory and defy a weakened America to stop them. Religious fanatics are dedicated to butchering all the world’s citizens who don’t convert to their beliefs. And the worst is yet to come. From Russian aggression to worldwide jihadism, from China’s designs on Southeast Asia to a morally and financially bankrupt European Union, from violent and expanding drug cartels to Iranian nuclear designs, the members of the Alliance for Global Unity are close to achieving their goal—a single world government with them ruling it.

But a shadow government of old-fashioned patriots is working to change the course of events. The key to success is the world’s deadliest hunter-killer special ops unit—the Sleeping Dogs. But keeping the six Sleeping Dogs alive is challenging. An outstanding Presidential Decision Directive ordered the men to be terminated with extreme prejudice. An angry FBI agent, believing his wife had an affair with the unit’s leader Brendan Whelan, is pursuing him with homicide on his mind. A rogue Russian agent seeks revenge for thwarting his mission to assassinate the president of the United States. And, most chillingly, a huge and mysterious brute named Maksym is systematically hunting down each of the Dogs. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance.

The Year of the Dog

Thousands of Islamic terrorists have set up cells in America, stockpiling weapons, assembling explosives, and identifying soft targets, as well as police and first responder stations, military installations, and the nation’s electrical and communications grids. The Chinese are solidifying their dominion throughout Asia and setting their sights on the rest of the planet. The Russian president is intensifying his threat against the free peoples of Europe and beyond. Cyberwarfare is ramping up from Beijing and Moscow to Pyongyang, Tehran, Havana and elsewhere.

It’s the eve of a presidential election, but the outgoing administration spent the past eight years, like a modern Nero, fiddling away the country’s treasure, oblivious or too incompetent to recognize the threat. Time is running out, and a shadow government has learned of a pending threat to the U.S. homeland that will render the nation defenseless. It asks Brendan Whelan to reunite the members of the world’s deadliest hunter-killer black ops team—the Sleeping Dogs—and try to stop it. The question is, can Whelan get the quarreling Sleeping Dogs back together in time?

The Dogs of War

They’re here. In America. Thousands of Islamic terrorists committed to a rabid jihad that ends only when they’ve butchered the last man, woman, and child. Worst of all, they have six nuclear devices. Their plan is to detonate the first one at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where America stores its plutonium supplies. The odds of Western civilization being snuffed out grow stronger each day.

Only the shadow government known as the Society of Adam Smith, or SAS, may be capable of dealing with this threat. And it desperately needs the skills possessed only by that deadliest of hunter-killer teams, the Sleeping Dogs. But its members each have gone their separate ways. Now, Brendan Whelan must reunite them while recruiting a new member, an Australian. But with his rogue brother, the monstrous Maksym, intent on killing Whelan’s family, can he reunite the Dogs in time? Herding cats would be easier.

Heart pounding, non-stop action pulls the reader from one global crisis spot to the next as Western civilization faces its worst onslaught in history.

A Deadlier Breed

The Chinese believe world domination is their destiny. They’ve armed Islamic terrorists with five tactical nuclear weapons to be smuggled into and detonated in U.S. cities. Time to stop them is running out. To avoid the catastrophic panic that public knowledge of the threat would cause, an unconventional president turns to a secretive, paramilitary group—the Sleeping Dogs. Its members share a rare genetic attribute that makes them the world’s deadliest hunter-killer black ops team, but each is struggling with his own personal challenges. The terrorists have a head start, but they’ve violated Chaucer’s ancient caveat: let sleeping dogs lie. The Sleeping Dogs are awake now, but will they find the nukes in time?

A Deadlier Breed is a thriller that incorporates international espionage, geopolitical intrigue, and paramilitary action. Readers have compared the thrillers in the Sleeping Dogs series to those of the late Vince Flynn and Clive Cussler, among others.

The Devil’s Litter

Meet the most fascinating and unforgettable characters in modern fiction. Nicknamed the Sleeping Dogs, their objective is to hunt and kill freedom’s most dangerous enemies. Their training is so challenging they barely survive it; their missions are extraordinarily dangerous. What happened in their youthful experiences that molded them into such remarkable and unusual individuals? How were these extraordinary warriors identified, recruited, and trained? What were they required to do to prove themselves worthy of the challenges they would face? And—most important—how do they react when they were betrayed by those who created them?

The People's Republic of America

A feckless American government foolishly believes it has a pact with Communist China to share world order. But the Chinese have different plans. They are developing an all but indestructible pathogen for the purpose of eliminating everyone who stands in their path to total global dominion. Seven extraordinary individuals, the Sleeping Dogs, are intent on stopping them. But China and it's American lapdog have sent the world's best assassins to hunt down the Dogs and kill them. They've kidnapped the wife of the leader of the Dogs, Brendan Whelan, and are using her to lure the Dogs into a fatal trap. How can a mere seven individuals survive, let alone make a difference? 

Spare Me, Kill the Rest

An election is coming and the majority of American voters don’t want either party’s candidate. A popular third-party challenger is gaining on them. The Deep State is in a panic. Just in time for the 2024 election cycle the latest Sleeping Dogs thriller takes modern weaponized politics into the next realm. First, Brendan Whelan, who has been framed for murder, must be rescued from a secret maximum security prison where the Establishment's political prisoners are 

held without due process of the law. Next, the reunited Sleeping Dogs must rescue the third-party candidate and his wife from an isolated cabin in Minnesota's Northwoods where they are being held by ex-Spetsnaz and Wagner Russian mercenaries.

—Stand-alone Thrillers—

The Taxman Cometh

A rogue IRS agent leads a raid on the wrong house and destroys Finn O’Casey’s world. A sympathetic neighbor who is also the leader of organized crime is not who he seems. Both men thought O’Casey was a mild-mannered accountant. They thought wrong. O’Casey, a former member of an elite special operations unit, goes dark and joins his warrior comrades to train for vengeance. The moral: Be careful who you choose as a victim.

The Quixotics

It’s 1970, and three young combat veterans of Viet Nam buy a leaky old sailboat and set out on a leisurely cruise to drink and brawl their way along the islands of the Caribbean. Two problems: they don’t know how to sail, and they don’t have any money. So, a shadowy government agency convinces them to smuggle guns to anti-Castro insurgents in Cuba.

After surviving a hurricane at sea, things go from bad to worse. They’re captured by Castro’s forces, imprisoned, and tortured. But these former special ops soldiers manage to escape into the rugged mountains of eastern Cuba. There they meet up with the insurgents. Two things happen. The body count rapidly escalates and an unlikely romance blossoms.