Hello There.

Before "SECURITY ISSUE: TWO WARS, MIDDLE A FENCE (兩場戰爭，中間有圍欄)©" or TWMAF for short, became to be a crime novel, it was a videogame concept for a Garry's Mod Delta Force-like server experience... that failed, then transitioned into what it is today, born from Saints Row 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Sleeping Dogs, The Borrowed by Chan Ho-kei and a fuckton of head canon. Writing began on March 14th of 2024, and early on, TWMAF wanted to be a bridge to a Sleeping Dogs I and you never had and probably will never get. I can't say my shit is good. It probably is hot ass. But alas, an amateur's attempt at good shit.

TL:DR; if you don't wanna real allat, then please refer to the parts at the bottom.

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Low concept is, the novel revolves around the first-hand accounts / day in the lives of both a Private Security Company that got disavowed by the Chinese and Hong Kong government from the mistakes they made during a major terrorist attack that set the plot into motion, and others like criminals and police officers--explained enough in detail, certain things left out for the reader to fill in the blanks. A terrorist attack, match lit by a rivalling state actor. Set in 2024 in an allohistoric Hong Kong with a grounded cyberpunk feel: ergo, rather than traditional cyberpunk, there's a greater distribution of real-life high-tech and absolute low life social standards.

It is the second year of the Second Triad Troubles, where crime is at an all time high, and "The Year Of The Sleeping Dogs" and "The Year Of The Snake" which was how I chose to refer to the events in Sleeping Dogs that are canon to the novel's universe, was dangerously close to becoming one, but wasn't. It treats Sleeping Dogs's universe as canon, but also tries to fill in the gaps i felt the game left out, lore that makes sense (Wei Shen being an SDU attachment to the OCTB, Thomas Pendrew and another antagonist called Director of Operations John Marilyn Bromley having both served in the Falklands War but different units, etc.) If only the mission to find the suppliers of the terrorist was as easily said than done...

• Transgressive elements, ergo shock factor... not everyone could stomach it. Mental health, to intervening in sexual abuse, to elaborate forms of torture, racism without gratuitous bullshit ettc. inside the mature themes bucket. But I always felt as if, if you are a detective, eventually you are going to delve into things you know are way wrong. Hell, some what I may write, people have actually experienced it. And because mental health is a major part to the characters, I lie to you not, I do actually want to donate a portion of my proceeds to charity and record all of it as best as I can.

The story itself primarily focuses on two people.

- Liangmei; the abandoned daughter to an assassinated Dragonhead, that transformed the Sun On Yee (post-1987) into basically a paramilitary cult. 10 years of ruling with an iron fist and absorbing other triads within the same group, Liangmei lived none of it during her Mong Kok childhood, but felt for every victim. A difficult childhood galvanized her to become a great cop, inspired by Wei Shen, Inspector Kwan Chun-dok, and Jianjun Yifang--a corrupt but heroic former OCTB agent. Following an incident that ended up in the loss of her police partner on Christmas Eve of 2020, her life spiraled until she finally got the opportunity to re-up with a private security company and began to travel the world to former warzones for worldbuilding. Just before the events of TWMAF, the loss of a teammate in her group from an IED, during a Baghdad gig, lowered the morale of everyone involved. Liangmei isn't a "pretty" woman, or has a nice voice: 28 years later with no guidance, she still doesn't have her marbles in order. She became a control freak from the unfortunate things that happened to her, lies to psychiatrists to stay on mission. And still has to work her butt off to be taken seriously for once outside of issues with PTSD and anxiety.

- Ngai (eng name: Cameron); a Vietnamese-expat, street kid from Yuen Long, cage fighter, street racer and martial artist. Ngai wanted to be at the top young with fast cars, women, violence and a whole gang of people, despite not being a triad. After having seen the gangster lifestyle chip away at his sanity, cause people on his end to get killed, becoming unfaithful, being done fighting for scraps in cage fights, he still wanted to get all of the action, hence why he cut everyone off and re-upped with the Pursuit & Interception Team, Traffic Branch, HKPD. In 2024 however, he comes an OCTB agent, where in ACT 1, he proves his mettle by trying to destroy a resurgent drug operation.

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As it stands, and because I want to cap chapters at 300-400 pages, there are 5 chapters and there may be Part One and Part Two's to long chapters, or ACTs. You got ACT 0 Prologue (supposed to come out April this year in digital form, eBook or else) that basically explains who Liangmei and her surrounding is, all the way to ACT 4 for this "Hong Kong Campaign." I'm mid-way to finishing ACT 1 after multiple restarts, and mind you I'm doing this all on my own; simulating a whole world, in a niche novel that is supposed to be kinda like "It's either the worst thing you wanted to read, or the best thing you stumbled upon by accident." Because I'm doing it myself, release cadence would be right around 5-8 months? eBooks are planned to get pumped out first.

I don't have a community Discord as of yet, but I do have Cyberspace.online where I post updates and occassional lore-drops wherever I find the time. But for the Sleeping Dogs community and for anyone remotely intrigued by this novel, I wish to present a question as to how they would like it, the novel, this nice.

Have a nice day.