Novels

In the first book in the Home Team Series, The Home Team, Sam Anthem and the members of his State Department covert operations team fight their way through the Mexican jungle and locations across the United States to battle the Mexican cartels, who are intent on expanding their operations at any cost. The team's goal? Stop the cartels and "encourage" them, by unconventional means, to convert their operations from the growth and production of illegal drugs to participation in the U.S./Mexico subsidized Drugs to Ag program. 

In this fast-paced, action-packed novel, Sam and the Home Team risk their lives to save a country, protect each other, and counter very real threats to innocent lives. In the midst of this, Sam wrestles with balancing the demands of his job as a covert operator, a new-found faith in God, and an unexpected relationship with an amazing, revered woman known as Paloma Blanca.

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

  The Home Team by Dave Pratt | Home Team series, Book 1 

In Home Team 2, follow Ellen (Ell) Evander, a Washington State Trooper and part-time crusader against human trafficking, who gets trapped by her own misguided, unsanctioned, but well-intentioned efforts to stop the global, evil trade of human beings. As result of her recklessness and ill-conceived efforts, Ell is taken by the very human traffickers she intended to battle and is shipped to Greece in a shipping van full of captives. She and her fellow captives are rescued by another, better prepared but mysterious lone wolf operator who shares her hate of human trafficking, and the Home Team, a State Department covert operations group.

Once freed and back in Olympia, Washington, Ell's boss, the Chief of the Washington State Patrol, presents Ell with two options as punishment for her actions: suspension and the potential loss her job as a State Trooper, or working with and learning from the members of the Home Team, the four covert operators who helped save her in Greece.  

During her time with the Home Team, Ell encounters the Alex, lone wolf who helped her in Greece, develops unwanted feelings for the man, even as she grows in skill and maturity as a crime-fighter and faces off with an evil Chinese shipping conglomerate responsible for smuggling drugs, weapons, technology, and human lives.

Home Team 2 is 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.

 Home Team 2 by Dave Pratt | Home Team series, Book 2 

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, Christian 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!