Book 1
Continuity of Deception
Jonathan Jack Kovar has spent his life hunting truth. Former covert intelligence contractor. Expert in behavioral profiling and lie detection. A man who can read microexpressions, motives, and fear with surgical precision. But nothing in his past prepares him for the moment the government’s emergency continuity chain fails without warning.
The system is compromised.
The override codes are forged.
Someone has rewritten the rules.
The deeper Jack digs, the more he discovers a conspiracy led by a hidden architect manipulating a politician’s ambition and a cyber engineer’s genius to seize national authority. The plot stretches from Washington war rooms to encrypted foreign channels and back to Jack’s own past. His former colleague Marcus Levin, now tied to overlapping intelligence services, returns as an unpredictable threat placing Jack directly in the crosshairs.
With the FBI, political forces, shadow agencies, and foreign handlers moving across the board, Jack is forced to navigate lies layered inside official documents, altered federal systems, and human behavior twisted by ego, power, and desperation.
Together with his longtime ally Tom Harrison, an FBI agent who provides equal doses of support and comedic frustration, Jack races to stop a silent coup before the final directive is triggered.
But when the mastermind escapes and the smoke clears, Jack discovers the conspiracy reached far further than the government alone. A new threat emerges, one tied to a wealthy family’s suspicious death, a trafficking network, and the same international pipeline that moved weapons into the hands of extremists.
Continuity of Deception is the explosive first installment of The Tenacity Files, blending human-based lie detection, espionage tradecraft, international crime, and relentless investigative tenacity into a thriller where the only constant is deception.
About the Author
Stephen John Komorek
Stephen Komorek is a writer, investigator, and strategist whose career has taken him deep into the intersections of intelligence, geopolitics, and human deception. With a professional background rooted in complex investigations, intelligence, and behavioral analysis, Stephen brings authenticity and psychological depth to every page of The Tenacity Files.
His work blends real-world tradecraft, human-driven detective methodology, and the tense ambiguity of global intelligence - mirroring the dual-world tension faced by his protagonist, Jonathan Jack Kovar. Stephen’s insight into deception detection, crisis environments, and the unseen networks that shape global events informs the intricate conspiracies and emotionally grounded characters that define the series.
The first book, Continuity of Deception, launches a multi-season arc that pulls readers from the shadows of Washington, D.C., to the covert channels of international crime networks, foreign intelligence entities, and continuity-of-government power structures. Through Stephen’s writing, readers step into a world where truth is fragile, institutions are vulnerable, and a single human decision can alter the fate of a nation.
When he isn’t writing, Stephen continues his work in investigative strategy and international problem-solving, drawing from real cases and high-stakes environments to build stories that resonate with grit, credibility, and moral complexity.
The Tenacity Files is his flagship thriller series - an exploration of power, loyalty, betrayal, and follows the authors relentless pursuit of truth.
