Novels

Follow the Home Team Series by Dave Pratt

Sam, Jessica, Allen and Leah, top-tier covert operators work without boundaries for the State Department’s Extreme Operations Group. Their mission: to battle cartels, organized crime, and intelligence threats against the people of the United States and its allies. Part skilled tactical team, part close-knit family unit of believers, wrestle with issues of faith, trust and betrayal within their own lives and the often-lethal environment that is their workspace.

In the first book in the series, The Home Team, Sam Anthem, unofficial leader of the Home Team fights his way through the Mexican jungle, Pacific Northwest and Florida, to convince Mexico’s major cartels to participate in the State Department’s Drugs to Agriculture program. In this fast-paced, action-packed novel, Sam and his risk their lives to help save a country, while Sam reconciles a new-found faith and relationship with the requirements of his job as a covert operator.

The Home Team is available in print, Kindle and Audible versions through Amazon.com and other book sellers.

 Follow Ellen Evander, Ell, a Washington State Trooper and part-time crusader against human trafficking who becomes trapped by her own efforts. As punishment for going renegade, the Chief of the State Patrol finagles a plan for Ell to do penance working with and learning from the Home Team. Her passion for combatting human trafficking, Ell meets Alex and others, and forms an auxiliary tactical unit, Home Team 2, who carries her crusade across the country, into Europe and China. Another fast-paced, action-packed story that draws you in from the first page to the last.

Home Team 2 is available in print, Kindle and Audible versions through Amazon.com and other book sellers.

For Release November 2025!

Leah McCarthy, a member of the Home Team, four top tier covert operators reporting to the State Department’s Extreme Operations Group, is on a much-needed vacation when she steps into the middle of a double active shooter incident at a local grocery store. She stops the shooters, but not before two little girls and too many store patrons and staff are left wounded and dying. The event triggers severe PTSD symptoms in the midst of an investigation that uncovers a nation-wide conspiracy for a coordinated attack on cities across the country.

As Leah struggles to reground herself against recurring, spirit-shattering PTSD symptoms, she and a local detective identify terrorist plans to use virtual reality tools to train and empower active shooters in a coordinated, nation-wide attack on soft targets across America. Can Leah rally herself and refocus her covert operator skills and, with the help of the detective, the other members of the Home Team, and the Extreme Operations Group, to thwart the attack? 

This fast-paced, action-packed Clean Fiction suspense novel will carry you across the United States, and deep into issues faced by the shadow warriors who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Fasten your seatbelt for this one and stay on the edge of your seat for the whole read!