SLEEPING DOGS:
THE AWAKENING
By:
John Wayne Falbey
Copyright © 2012 John Wayne Falbey.
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John Wayne Falbey
[email protected] ISBN: 978-0-9855187-1-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012909065
DEDICATION
To Annie, my wife, and so much more—my best friend, my partner, my playmate, my biggest fan, my inspiration. Thank you for your love, patience, encouragement and trust. No one has ever had a better companion for life.
SLEEPING DOGS: THE AWAKENING
Table of Contents
DEDICATION
Cast of Characters
Chapter 1—Georgetown: Coincidence
Chapter 2—Georgetown: Reunion
Chapter 3—J. Edgar Hoover Building
Chapter 4—Georgetown: The Society
Chapter 5—Hart Senate Office Building
Chapter 6—Georgetown: The Delivery
Chapter 7—J. Edgar Hoover Building
A Note From The Author
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Brendan Whelan – an innkeeper in Dingle, Ireland, and leader of the deadly hunter-killer special ops unit known as the Sleeping Dogs
Caitlin Whelan – Brendan’s wife and partner
Cliff Levell – former Marine and CIA operative now leader of the Society of Adam Smith (SAS), a shadow government attempting to counter the elected government’s destruction of American values and freedoms. He’s confined to a wheelchair because of injuries incurred in an automobile accident
Mitch Christie – an agent of the FBI pursuing Whelan and the other Dogs
Maksym Kozak – a ruthless killer and genetic freak who works for the highest bidder
Kirill Federov – a former Spetsnaz (Russian special ops) colonel serving in the SVR, Russia’s external intelligence agency
The Sleeping Dogs (together with Brendan Whelan, the deadliest hunter-killer special ops unit in history; genetically evolved—Mother Nature’s beta models for humans in future generations):
Sven Larsen – the most physically powerful of the Dogs and closest to Whelan
Marc Kirkland – an esthete and master of martials fighting and weapons techniques
Nick Stensen – a loner and certifiably insane; he hunts down and kills criminals who have escaped the law
Quentin Thomas – a philosopher king; the best pure athlete of the Dogs and professor of Eastern philosophies
Rafe Almeida – genetically gifted like the other Dogs, but an inveterate substance abuser and skirt-chaser
Tom Murphy – Caitlin Whelan’s father and a former member of the UK’s SBS; currently An Garda Síochána (the Irish National Police force) District Superintendent for County Kerry, Ireland
Padraig (Paddy) Murphy – Caitlin’s brother and the Sergeant in Charge of the An Garda Síochána station in Dingle, Ireland
General Roscoe “Buster” McCoy – Marine Corps 2-Star General and head of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, or MARSOC
Maureen Delaney - chief executive of one of the largest and most successful technology companies on the planet, and Levell’s love interest
Rhee Kang-Dae – Levell’s personal assistant, driver, and bodyguard
The Mueller Brothers (Alfred, Hermann, and Tomas) – billionaire industrialists and patriots who fund SAS operations and provided leading edge technological support
Lou Antonelli – an agent of the FBI and Mitch Christie’s coworker
Dr. William Nishioki – a geneticist who, with his late colleague Jacob Horowitz, discovered the advanced genetic makeup and helped Levell and McCoy recruit the Dogs; retired and living in coastal California
Harold Case – retired CIA employee who uncovered the supposedly destroyed Agency file on the Sleeping Dogs while in the employ of Sen. Howard Morris
Chaim Laski – international arbitrageur and financial manager for a far-left organization seeking to destroy the USA from within
Senator Howard Morris – a powerful senator from New York and darling of the far-left causes. He has presidential aspirations
Shepard Jenkins – Morris’s chief campaign advisor
Aaron Rickover – a rookie agent at the FBI
Jim Franconia – the CIA’s liaison with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
“It is nought good a slepying hound to wake”
- Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde