Before Deklan Novak carried an FBI badge, before he was a decorated member of
the FBI VCAC Squad in Chicago, before he hunted child traffickers in the streets of
Chicago, he hunted ghosts in the mountains of Afghanistan as a United States Navy SEAL.
Months before Operation Neptune Spear changed history, Novak found himself as a
veteran member of SEAL Team One, working alongside CIA operators, Afghan
commandos, and members of SEAL Team Six in the rugged border regions between
Afghanistan and Pakistan. The mission was simple in theory: find the couriers, follow the
network, and stay one step ahead of the most hunted man on earth. What they discovered
instead would shape the rest of Novak's life.
The second book of the Deklan Novak series, The Rogue Breacher, will set the stage
for readers to understand the life of a Special Forces warrior, forged from the
mountaintops of Khost Province to the shadows of international power, where old missions,
old friendships, and unfinished wars collide. The hunt began long before Abbottabad.
The Rogue Breacher begins as Deklan searches for the child killers from the end of
the first book, The Breacher's Playbook. The Rogue Breacher is a gritty, kinetic thriller
about power without permission, violence without flags, and the men trusted to act when
the world insists on looking away.
The Rogue Breacher will be released on 9/11/2026, a somber day, a day to honor and
never forget the 25th anniversary that changed all of us forever. 9/11/2001 was the day when
so many men and women made the decision to join the military to help fight the terrorism
that killed 2,977 Americans. Tom Hruby was among those who joined the military after the
towers came down.