SEAN HAGERTY
Sean Hagerty is a retired Special Operations soldier with over twenty-five years of experience. He spent his younger years training and conducting combat operations with the 1st of the 75th Ranger Regiment. After nine years, in 2005, he was selected for and assigned to a Special Operations unit at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. There, he spent sixteen years and finished his military career, retiring as a sergeant major. He received several awards and decorations throughout his career, including three Bronze Stars.
Sean currently works for the Department of Defense Science Board as the senior advisor. The board tackles difficult technical issues of importance to national security for leaders within the DoD.
His wife, Misty, is an executive officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Their children—Courtney, Travis, Samantha, and Delaney—all live in the Washington D.C. area and are thriving, growing, and traveling along their own paths. The grandchildren Rowen, Jameson, and Wren keep Sean and Misty busy.
Sean dug into his decades of service and deep-rooted research instincts from years of academic pursuits in history to tell this story. This story was written mostly in the plush seats of the daily Tackett’s Mill/Pentagon commuter bus and the shaky bucket seats of the Franconia Springfield/Largo blue metro line. However, a few chapters were written while traveling for work, taking advantage of uninterrupted thoughts on an airliner. One chapter was even written during an evening break on a business trip aboard the USS Nimitz CVN 68 aircraft carrier out in the Pacific Ocean.
Cabal all came together during evening edits in his home shared with Misty in Lakeridge, Virginia.
Jones Point was the first novel in the Dane Cooper series. Cabal is the second.
A third book in the series will be publishing in 2027.
As a Special Operations Soldier, Dane Cooper was trained and tested to handle the most strenuous and dangerous situations around the world. He was not however prepared for the abduction of his daughter. This life changing event sends him into a downward spiral, the depths of which unknown even to Dane.
But a lifeline, a purpose, and a path to redemption is offered to him by a mysterious cabal where his skills are paramount to helping others. Now investigating other grieving parent’s cases, Dane must conceal his efforts from the zeal of an FBI agent convinced that a vigilante cabal exists; a dedicated Virginia Bureau of Investigation team working parallel crimes against children; and an elusive network of monsters at the center of it all. Punishing the wicked while searching for his little Angel, Dane must overcome the struggle with his internal demons for retention of his soul.
Dane Cooper beats against the tide to continue the search for his abducted daughter, Angela. His involvement with The Cabal, a mysterious group of grieving parents, intensifies as their efforts become bolder and more brazen.
From a high-profile assault upon sex traffickers in Savannah to a clandestine military operation in Somaliland, Dane brings the fight to those who would harm children. At every turn, members of The Cabal must stay out of the crosshairs of Carl Blanchard's new FBI task force and Virginia Bureau of Criminal Investigation Special Agents Patterson and Stills.
And this time, the Keeper and his disciples are fighting back.
The hunters have become the prey as Cabal members are viciously attacked in their homes. The savage killer is a ghost, torturing and murdering them one by one as he moves his way up the hierarchy. Dane, Sam, and Jack race against time to protect their members before the club is eradicated.
Nobody is safe.
A soldier-turned-author Sean Hagerty shares his reflections on working in special operations for most of his career and how he has incorporated that into his book...