The Old Sleeper

by Tom Moates

The Old Sleeper is a fresh yet timeless voice in the classic spy mystery genre—Tom Moates’s fiction debut is a first class spy novel. Agent Gene Davis, enjoying his first week of retirement from the CIA on his newly acquired Arizona ranch, is horseback gathering cattle when his cell phone rings. It’s his old boss, Jeb. A missile has exploded near the Pentagon and there are some bizarre facts surfacing about the age and type of weapon used in the attack. Tom Moates cleverly weaves a suspenseful plot while depicting an historical crossroads as the age of World War II and the Cold War collide with our modern moment of extremist terrorism and shifting values. The story unfolds among America’s ranchlands, Washington, D.C., modern day Moscow, and reaches its climax with World War II era fighter planes and modern fighter jets in one of the most gripping aerial dogfights in all of fiction. Tom Moates is one of America’s leading equestrian authors. This award winning writer has 11 previously published books and more than 600 articles to his credit. For more info visit www.TomMoates.com.

Genres: Fiction

230 pages, Paperback

Published February 6, 2020

About the author

Tom Moates is constantly driving the people in his life nuts as he works to get better with horses.

Moates is a leading equestrian journalist and author. This award winning writer has penned more than 500 articles and is on the masthead of Equus magazine as a Contributing Writer. His articles run in many horse magazines in the United States and abroad including: The American Quarter Horse Journal, Eclectic-Horseman, America’s Horse, and Western Horseman.

Moates’s newest book, Passing It On, joins his other titles, Discovering Natural Horsemanship, A Horse’s Thought, Between the Reins, Further Along the Trail, and Going Somewhere, all established titles in the library of modern horsemanship literature. A compilation of his most notable articles and essays, Round-Up: A Gathering of Equine Writings, was published in 2011.

Moates lives on a solar powered farm with his wife Carol and a herd of horses in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Book ordering info and Moates’s latest publishing news are available at www.TomMoates.com.