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Temporary Insanity, Operation Detour, Dobie's Dilemma, Lottery President and Another Way have been stitched together as an episodic saga starring Dobie Pokorny.
Yes, Benny, Alex, and Dub have new names. To those who loved them: thank you. This isn’t a rewrite; it’s a reframing. Each book still stands on its own.
The man, the myth, the legend? In his own mind, absolutely. Follow Dobie's misadventures through bad breakups, cult and anti‑cult entanglements in L.A., hit men and hit women across Southeast Asia, an unexpected lottery win and presidential run back home complete with the by‑now expected assassination attempts, a manifesto, more assassination attempts, an alien or hallucination (depending on who you ask), confrontation with the powers-that-be, and true love at last.
Book 1: Temporary Insanity
Dobie just wants a steady paycheck and maybe a rebound after a brutal breakup. What he gets is Venelia — a receptionist with a thousand‑yard stare, a cult on speed‑dial, and a talent for dragging him into trouble.
One innocent night out turns into a missing car, a torched workplace, and Dobie being kidnapped by deprogrammers who think he's the cult member. By the time he limps home, Venelia has taken his entire apartment building hostage and is threatening to blow it sky‑high.
Dobie takes refuge with a friend of a friend — unaware that his new host is the leader of Venelia's cult, the Dynamos.
Temporary Insanity launches the Dobie Pokorny saga with cults, chaos, mistaken identity, and one man's accidental journey into a world far stranger than he ever imagined.
Book 2: Operation Detour
Dobie is having a terrible week: fired from his job, discovering his girlfriend doing porn with her ex, and being handed a fatal diagnosis. Enter Riva — a stunning black‑ops trainee whose boss, Serge, has one simple directive: turn Dobie into an asset. For Riva, it's supposed to be an easy win. For Dobie, it's the beginning of a very long detour.
When he flies to Kuala Lumpur "because it sounds cool," Riva follows, nudging him toward a mission he never agreed to. One small explosion, one Malaysian jail cell, and one guilty conscience later, Riva breaks him out — and Serge unleashes his global hit squad.
Dodging assassins from Kuala Lumpur to Phuket, Dobie and Riva become unlikely partners in survival, improvisation, and questionable life choices. Taking down Serge wasn't part of the plan, but neither was falling for each other. And when the dust settles and the money runs out, they're left with the hardest mission of all: what comes next?
Operation Detour is a fast, funny, international misadventure about two people who never meant to save each other — but do it anyway.
Book 3: Dobie's Dilemma
Dobie swore he was done with chaos. Nashville seemed like the perfect place to disappear into a quiet IT job, a quiet marriage, and a quiet life. But LeHavre Research — the bioweapons giant that signs his paychecks — has other plans.
When Dobie is sent to troubleshoot a "routine" problem at a remote LeHavre lab, he walks straight into a nightmare. His boss is suddenly hospitalized, his coworker is nearly killed, and Darla — the only friendly face in the building — is desperate to blow the whistle on what the company is really doing behind locked doors. Before Dobie can run, she pulls him into a conspiracy that gets them both shoved into witness protection.
Weeks later, Darla resurfaces with a dangerous proposition: leave protection and help her expose LeHavre once and for all. Dobie wants nothing to do with it… but the truth has a way of dragging him back.
Dobie's Dilemma is a tense, twist‑driven thriller about corporate secrets, forced loyalties, and one man who keeps trying to escape trouble — only to find it waiting for him every time.
Book 4: Lottery President
Winning three hundred million dollars would be a finish line for most people. For Dobie, it's the starting gun. Instead of buying a mansion or disappearing to an exotic locale, he launches the most improbable presidential run in American history — fueled by cash, conviction, and a stubborn belief that he can save the country from the very people running it.
Dobie wants the White House. What he gets is a target on his back.
The moment he announces, powerful enemies take notice. Some want to control him. Others want him gone. And more than a few think his campaign should end permanently. As threats escalate from smear jobs to assassination attempts, Dobie discovers that changing the system means surviving it first.
Armed with lottery money, sheer nerve, and a talent for stumbling into trouble, Dobie refuses to back down. "I'll retire when I'm dead," he says — unaware of how many people are working overtime to make that happen.
Lottery President is a sharp, fast‑moving political thriller about an ordinary man with extraordinary luck, taking on a system that would rather see him buried than elected.
Book 5: Another Way
Dobie has lost his fortune, his patience, and any remaining faith in corporate America. His answer is a manifesto — Another Way: Beyond the Status Quo — a blistering call‑out of the powerful. When Colonel Charonne, his ruthless boss at SaynCorp, discovers it, Dobie is fired on the spot and marked as a problem that needs to be dealt with.
Instead of backing down, Dobie hits the road on a truth‑to‑power speaking tour. What he doesn't expect is Kaylie — sharp, grounded, and far too good for the mess he's dragging behind him. They both assume the other is out of their league, but the connection is instant and undeniable. Together, they become unlikely fugitives, dodging Charonne's operatives as the stakes escalate from corporate retaliation.
And then there's Semmy — a little blue alien with mysterious motives — whose sudden appearances suggest Dobie's fight may be bigger than he ever imagined.
Another Way is the heartfelt culmination of Dobie's journey: a story about choosing love, growth, and refusing to let the world — or its oligarchs — decide who you get to become. And sometimes, the universe sends help from the strangest places.
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