Endangered Species: PART 1

ENDANGERED
SPECIES

PART 1

A SLEEPING DOGS THRILLER

By:

John Wayne Falbey

Endangered Species is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of
the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, or locales is entirely
coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 John Wayne Falbey.

All rights reserved. Except as permitted
under U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may
be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any
means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the
prior written permission of the publisher, The Falbey Group LLC

ISBN:
978-0-9855187-4-5

Cover Design: Tatiana Vila

CAVEAT
: This is
Part 1
of a complete novel that consists of five parts. It is not the
complete novel. The complete novel is available at various online
sources including KOBO, Amazon, iBooks, Nook, and
Smashwords.

—
DEDICATION—

No man is an island...

—
John Donne

The fifteenth century English poet nailed
it. No one, no matter how independent-minded, is truly alone.
Someone can be self-absorbed, or pride himself or herself on
self-sufficiency, but there is a whole world out there constantly
spinning around them. As an only child, I liked to believe in my
completeness and independence from that world. But I was wrong. My
world is full and rich, made more so by the presence of one very
special person—Annie. She’s my Muse, my greatest source of
encouragement, and the love of my life. Thanks, Sweetheart; this
one’s for you.

ENDANGERED
SPECIES

—PART ONE—

Table of
Contents

For Those Who Came
Late…

Cast of Characters

PART 1: Dog Bites Man

Chapter 1— Dingle,
Ireland

Chapter 2—Albuquerque, New
Mexico

Chapter 3— Dingle,
Ireland

Chapter 4—Albuquerque, New
Mexico

Chapter 5—Dingle,
Ireland

Chapter 6—Tidewater
Virginia

Chapter 7— Dingle,
Ireland

Chapter 8—Albuquerque, New
Mexico

Chapter 9—Naples,
Florida

Chapter 10—Albuquerque, New
Mexico

Chapter 11—The Kremlin,
Moscow

Chapter 12—New York
City

The Year of the Dog

A Note From The
Author

Acknowledgements

For Those Who Came
Late…

This is
Part 1 of the second novel in the Sleeping Dogs series of political
thrillers. The following is a brief summary of the action in the
first book in the series,
Sleeping Dogs:
The Awakening
—

The President of the United
States has been targeted for assassination—by his
own
handlers. The killing
must look as if the president’s political opposition is
responsible. Desperate to prevent the crime and prevent the
overwhelming outpouring of sympathy that will only further empower
the real killers, 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 blackest of black ops units was
formed to carry out America’s wettest, most politically incorrect
missions abroad. Eventually, a U.S. President, fearing discovery of
the unit’s existence could spark an international crisis, ordered
its members terminated with extreme prejudice. They escaped by
faking their deaths in a plane crash, and went underground. Now, 20
years later, they are asked to leave the safety of their anonymity
and risk their lives for their country one more time.

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, the CIA, a
doggedly determined FBI agent, and the six deadliest men on
earth—the surviving Sleeping Dogs. The body count begins to soar
from the first chapter, as Brendan Whelan and the other Dogs
relentlessly pursue the would-be assassins and their handlers. As
they do, they begin to 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 one
thing the enemy doesn’t have is the Sleeping Dogs.

Sleeping Dogs: The
Awakening
is a techno-political spy
thriller. It combines relentless action, crisp dialogue, fully
drawn characters, and thought provoking plot twists. Squarely on
the same page with David Baldacci, Brad Thor, Lee Child and other
best-selling thriller writers.

Endangered Species: A
Sleeping Dogs Thriller

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

Harland Fairchilde IV
– a fourth generation scion of an über wealthy
family and leader of the Alliance for Global Unity (AGU), a global
organization of financiers and government officials seeking to
impose a one-world structure on mankind

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 martial arts 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

Camila Ramirez
– a sheriff’s deputy in Albuquerque, New Mexico
and Mitch Christie’s lady friend

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

Gennady Vasilyev
– Russian general and head of SVR, Russia’s
external intelligence agency

Prince Bandar bin Nayif al
Saud
- head of Saudi general
intelligence

Prince Khalid bin Salmon
al-Rahman
- Saudi minister of
finance

Nadir Shah
– leader of the Holy Army of the Caliphate, a radical group
establishing an Islamic state in the Middle East

Zheng Bao Xun
- the minister of finance for the People’s
Republic of China

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

Andrei Ulyanin
– former Spetsnaz colleague of Federov’s, now
working with him in Iraq

Princes and governments are far more
dangerous than other elements within society.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

PART ONE: DOG BITES
MAN

Chapter 1—Dingle,
Ireland

Barring sleep
disorders
, most people’s sleep habits are
distributed in the center of the bell curve. But there are
outliers.
Some of them can sleep through an
earthquake or hurricane. Then there are those few who wake up at
the sound of a fly landing on the wall—in the next room. Brendan
Whelan was one of them.

Something woke him, but it wasn’t an insect.
It was something common, yet out of the ordinary for the time of
night and place, like a guitar riff in the middle of a trackless
desert. He couldn’t quite place the sound, but he sensed danger. He
kept his eyes closed and listened carefully, intently. He was
gifted with an unusual genetic makeup that gave him unique physical
abilities. That, and years of highly specialized military and
survival training, made him appreciate the value of caution. It had
been reinforced by years of living a lie, constantly glancing over
his shoulder for the pursuit he knew would come someday.

Slowly, almost imperceptibly he slid his
hand across the sheet and gently touched the warm, still form
beside him. He could hear Caitlin breathing gently and steadily. He
strained to hear sounds coming from the room their boys, Sean and
Declan, shared. There was only silence and darkness. He opened one
eye very slightly, just a sliver. Seeing nothing out of the
ordinary, he slowly opened both of them. Nothing seemed amiss. He
slid silently from beneath the covers and slipped out of bed.

The original part of the
Fianna House Bed and Breakfast, or
teach
an Fianna
in Gaelic, had been built in the
late eighteenth century as a small farm bungalow on the outskirts
of Dingle, Ireland. By the early part of the twentieth century, it
gradually had been
expanded into a
three-story manor house. Before they were married, Whelan and
Caitlin had acquired the property and developed it into a
ten-bedroom, ten-bathroom inn with kitchen, dining room,
library/sitting area, and a small office. Their third floor bedroom
was part of the original structure.
The
wooden floor in that part of the house had been worn smooth over
the decades. It felt cool on the bottoms of his bare feet. The old
floor had spots where it creaked in complaint at human footsteps.
Whelan found all those areas on his first night in the house and
was careful now to avoid them.