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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Case files SD-01 – SD-09
The series
Each novel stands on its own, but the files reward being read in sequence — loyalties shift, enemies survive, and the past has a long reach. Declassify the eight published files, then get a first look at SD-09: coming November 2026, with Chapter One available now.
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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NOV 2026Hidden Dragons, Sleeping Dogs
The ninth Sleeping Dogs thriller is coming. Get an early look with “Birthplace of Dragons,” the opening chapter.
Coming soon · November 2026
Also by John Wayne Falbey
Two stand-alone thrillers
Outside the Sleeping Dogs series — and every bit as unsparing. Ten published novels in all.
The Quixotics
Three Vietnam combat veterans, a leaky sailboat, and a gunrunning job to anti-Castro insurgents in the 1970s Caribbean. The first novel he ever wrote — between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. as a law student.
The Taxman Cometh
A rogue IRS agent sets out to destroy the world of the one man he should have left alone — a cautionary tale about choosing the wrong victim.
In your ears
Audio editions are available through Google Play, Apple Books, and Audible — Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening among them. Audible page →