In this dark thriller of political intrigue, a successor in interest to the deeply embedded assets of the former Soviet Union has spent decades and limitless capital subverting the social, political, and economic infrastructure of the United States. It has gained control of the White House. Congress and the Supreme Court are almost in hand. But its handpicked President has developed his own agenda and his handlers want him killed. The assassination has to look like the work right wing zealots.
The "Team", a small but powerful group from the intelligence and military communities and well funded by certain private sector interests, is attempting to combat this foreign threat.
Principal antagonists include a Russian operative who reports directly to the president of the Russian Federation, a billionaire arbitrager who launders and distributes the funds used to infiltrate and subvert the critical elements of American society, an amoral, ambitious, and greedy US senator with his roving eye on the presidency, and a mysterious, terrifying killer named Maksym.
Opposing them, the Team is led by a retired no-bullshit intelligence operative and an Old School Marine Corps general. They have reunited the most dangerous group of human beings on the planet – a former black ops unit known as the Sleeping Dogs. These men are Mother Nature's beta models for the next leap forward in human evolution – stronger, faster, smarter. Their original blacker-than-black ops purpose was deemed too politically incorrect by a former president. The operation was shut down by Executive Order, which also called for the immediate termination with extreme prejudice of the members of the unit. They learned of it in time to fake their deaths and went underground for almost two decades. Now the Team has called them back into service. Someone has let the Dogs out! Over 8oo years ago Chaucer warned of the dangers of waking sleeping dogs. Now someone will pay a horrific price for such foolishness.
A morality tale of good and evil, Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening is a political thriller that showcases some of the latest developments in technology, weaponry and genetic research. Its geopolitical intrigue and the protagonists' brutal defense of liberty will remind readers of the work of authors Lee Child and Brad Thor. Relentlessly entertaining and thought provoking, the book blends heart-stopping action with a dangerous and plausible political scenario of the country's subversion from within.
This book is the first in a planned trilogy. One premise presents a frightening, but plausible scenario. The Soviet Union spent decades and enormous capital to subvert and destroy America's social structure and cultural values. The USSR is gone, but has another interest with similar goals succeeded to the assets it implanted and left behind? Is the current political turmoil and systemic upheaval a result of such continuing efforts? Sleeping Dogs explores this frightening possibility with relentless action and thought provoking plot twists.
A second premise is that in every generation Mother Nature produces a handful of individuals who are beta models of human beings in future generations. They are more evolved. What if scientists discovered this anomaly and developed a means of identifying these individuals? What if the intelligence and military communities recruited and trained them to use their extraordinary abilities for the blackest of black ops missions? What if something caused them to focus their bloodlust on an enemy destroying the U.S. from within?

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