№ 01
The Protagonist Is Complicated.
Perry Wade isn't a clean-cut hero. He's a Black man from Russellville, Arkansas, who carries alcoholism, trauma, and a childhood sweetheart he can't let go — and he's still the most dangerous man in any room.
Action Thriller · Driven by Success
The Man Who Saved the World Can’t Save Himself
Perry Wade left the shadows for a reason. Now the shadows are coming back — and the world goes with them.
By debut author M.R. Dean · 419pages · Kindle & paperback on Amazon
One retired government operative. One criminal mastermind building a world-domination apparatus from inside a federal prison. And a love story that never got resolved.
The Premise
Three lives. One impossible mission.
Perry Wade was the best undercover operative the U.S. government ever produced. Codenamed “Success,” he moved through the most dangerous rooms in the world without leaving a trace. Then the job broke him — and he walked away. Now he’s in Virginia, fighting the bottle, carrying twenty years of feelings for a woman named Veronica Valdez that he can’t admit and can’t bury.
Vick Tyde didn’t walk away from anything. Harvard-educated, formally spoken, terrifyingly intelligent — his trial ended in conviction, but his ambitions didn’t. From a federal maximum-security cell in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Tyde is still running a global operation: a Russian arms dealer on the line, plutonium in transit, and a vision to wipe whole cities off the map. His wife Elektra handles the outside. He handles the rest.
When Washington runs out of options, they come back for Perry. He doesn’t want this. He wants Vvee, sobriety, and a life that resembles something normal. What he gets is an undercover assignment on a cruise ship in international waters, a mission that could stop World War III, and no guarantee he makes it home. Suxxxess b-4 Tyde: Driven by Success is 419 pages of cinematic, dialogue-driven fiction that refuses to blink.
Why this one stays with you
Six reasons it earns its 419 pages
№ 02
The Villain Is Smarter Than You Expect.
Vick Tyde operates a global criminal network from a prison cell. A Russian arms dealer called him the smartest man he'd ever encountered. He's not wrong — and that's what makes this terrifying.
№ 03
The Stakes Are Real.
The Secretary of Defense says it out loud in Chapter 59: if Tyde gets what he needs, it could start World War III. M.R. Dean doesn't traffic in small stakes.
№ 04
The Love Story Has Weight.
Perry and Vvee grew up together. She's a federal agent now, a single mother, and she doesn't fully trust him — but she never fully stopped, either. That tension runs through every chapter.
№ 05
It Reads Like Television.
Fast chapters, dialogue-driven scenes, settings that span from an Arkansas childhood bedroom to the Oval Office to a cruise ship in international waters. If you watch Power or Snowfall, this is your next read.
№ 06
This Is Just Book One.
Suxxxess b-4 Tyde is the first book of a planned trilogy. Books 2 and 3 are already in development. Get in at the start of a series readers will be tracking for years.
“I hope God does have something big planned — because what I'm up against feels like Armageddon.”
Meet the man behind the book
M.R. Dean writes the books he needed to find.
Mark Ronald Dean grew up shaped by real-life experiences, hard lessons, and the kind of stories that stay with a person long after the moment passes. Suxxxess b-4 Tydeis his debut — built on ambition, loyalty, struggle, and survival.
Based in Pembroke Pines. First book of a planned trilogy.
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