THE
JOHNNIE
&
SANDER
STORIES
These novels tell the stories of two young gay men who meet and fall in love in the beautiful kingdom of Denmark. One of the guys is an American named Johnnie Allen. He moves to Denmark when he is hired by the CIA to drive 'spies' to their European assignments. There, he meets and falls in love the kind and quiet Sander Lars Hansen.
Johnnie is certain that Sander is straight, yet he still wants to remain close to him. So, he invites Sander on what was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill mission which gets complicated when a Russian operative enters the mix. Meanwhile, Johnnie has no idea that Sander is gay, or that he harbors the same feelings for Johnnie. And thus begins The Johnnie & Sander Stories.
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The Autobiography
BOOK BOY—A Memoir of a Gay Youth says that everybody has a story as good as a movie, and this one belongs to author Cade Jay Hathaway, creator of The Johnnie & Sander Stories gay youth book series.
Hathaway has enjoyed success in career, in love, and in his 32 years has accomplished more than most. But there is one area in his life that has fostered a very dark hole. Much of his extended family, especially his mother, do not accept him for who he is.
The fact that he is gay contradicts their steadfast evangelical Christian beliefs, which has caused a schism between them that evades reconciliation.
Book Boy is the tale of an exceptional young man who sees the brighter side and is proud of who he has become, despite the harsh judgment of others.
Book No. 1
HAPPY ENDINGS SLEEPOVER is the first book of The Johnnie & Sander Stories, and boy does it kick off this exciting world; one mixed with young, gay passion and European espionage.
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Johnnie Allen is a young American who get hired by the CIA to drive "the real spies" into and out of their assignment zones. While in Denmark he meets the man of his dreams, the kind and somewhat shy Sander. Unbeknownst to Johnnie, Sander has feelings for him. In order to be close to Sander—Johnnie doesn't know his new friend is gay—he invites him along on his assignment, with terrible consequences caused by a Russian hostile.
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Reviews of Happy Endings Sleepover have been phenomenal. You can read one here...
Book No. 2
SANDER'S COURAGE is the
exciting follow-up to Cade Jay Hathaway’s brilliant debut novel, Happy Endings Sleepover.
Johnnie and Sander have settled into a wonderful life together. During a day trip to Germany, Sander’s younger brother, Jannik, is held hostage by a middle eastern terrorist cell. As events unfold, the boys learn that the taking of Jannik Mads Hansen was no random act. The clock is ticking, and time to rescue the kidnapped child is running out.
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But time is also running out for Torben, Sander's ex-love who suddenly appears on Johnnie and Sander's doorstep seeking kindness and forgiveness for the wrong he did to his childhood friend. Will Sander have the courage to make peace with his old flame?
Book No. 3
LONG BEFORE MORNING shows the world as a darkening place in this third exciting installment of Cade Jay Hathaway's Johnnie & Sander Stories of gay youth fiction.
Johnnie Allen has been tasked to infiltrate a multinational Special Ops team into Ukraine a year after the military downing of a civilian airliner kills nearly three hundred innocent people. Their mission? To send a message to the Russian president that such callous actions will not go unpunished.
But another kind of callousness has attacked the love, serenity, and happiness of Johnnie's home in Denmark. And it may prove too much for him to even process, much less conquer.
Book No. 4
OPEN SECRETS begins on a rainy, foggy night in a provincial English village, where 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.
In 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.
What happens next makes Open Secrets one of the most exciting novels in the series.
Book No. 5
"Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows..."
And so begins the tale of THE PRODIGAL SPARROW.
In 2004 an 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
Johnnie & Sander Vol. 1
Johnnie & Sander Vol. 2
AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH—Book No. 6 in The Johnnie & Sander Stories—begins two short years after Johnnie's return from his harrowing assignment in North Korea. But now the political landscape has changed in his home country of 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 presidential administration embraces the doings of dictators and despots with a fervor never 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 a U.N. Security Council request by the Russian Kremlin, all with the tacit approval of the White House? This is the story in the series that never should have had to be written.
These two volumes contain the first six Johnnie & Sander Stories.
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Volume One includes complete, unabridged versions of HAPPY ENDINGS SLEEPOVER, SANDER'S COURAGE, and LONG BEFORE MORNING.
Volume Two continues The Johnnie & Sander Stories with OPEN SECRETS, THE PRODIGAL SPARROW, and the last of the first six novels, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
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