The Johnnie & Sander Stories Volume II — Cade Jay Hathaway

Three more of Cade Jay Hathaway's exciting espionage-laced gay youth novels comprise Volume Two of The Johnnie & Sander Stories. This volume begins with the fourth novel in the series titled Open Secrets. On a rainy, foggy night in a provincial English village, Captain Stuart Lanning of Operation Dutch Oven meets his end in a tragic car crash. But Lanning's wife believes that her husband was targeted. She travels to Denmark to ask for Johnnie's help in finding the captain's killers. Flashing back to the year 1988, Johnnie's CIA supervisor, Marge Stuplemann, was a bright, new intelligence agent doing her best to bring Panamanian strongman, Manuel Noriega, to justice. What would transpire would shock her core beliefs in the morality of her career choice. Now, nearly thirty years later, both events are on a collision course aimed directly at Johnnie, Sander, and Marge. What happens next makes Open Secrets one of the most exciting novels in the series.In The Prodigal Sparrow, a young American scholar-turned-English teacher, David Taylor, is kidnapped by the ruthless Kim Jong-il regime and spirited away to North Korea. Over a decade later, the CIA discovers the location of the missing American and mounts a rescue operation that will take Johnnie Allen directly into harm's way. As fate would have it, Johnnie is an exact doppelganger of the missing American, and as events on the world stage are set into motion there will be no turning back.Book No. 6 in the Johnnie & Sander series of novels, And Nothing but the Truth, begins two short years after Johnnie returns from his harrowing assignment in North Korea. But now the political landscape has changed in his home country, the United States. Where at one time the American government protected its people against the lies, corruption, and harm perpetuated by corrupt nations around the world, the current administration embraces the doings of dictators and despots with a fervor never before seen in American history. Racism is rampant, and the weakness displayed on a daily basis by the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue knows no bounds. But what happens when Johnnie and his team from Long Before Morning are brought up on charges at the U.N. Security Council at the behest of the Russian Kremlin, all with the tacit approval of the White House? And Nothing but the Truth is the story in the series that never should have had to be written.