Rick Hoppe
Author of Eight Stages: A Primer on Modern Revolution and fiction exploring conflict, identity, and human behavior under pressure.
FEATURED WORK
Eight Stages: A Primer on Modern Revolution
A clear, accessible framework for understanding how revolutions form, unfold, and reach rupture.
Releasing August 2026
I’m an author, veteran, and analyst based in Central Texas. My work examines how systems fracture, how pressure shapes human behavior, and how revolutions emerge long before they become visible.
For more than three decades, I worked in counterintelligence operations and analysis, studying how systems fracture and how violence emerges when structure fails. That experience shapes both my analytical writing and my fiction.
y non-fiction examines how revolutions form and unfold. My fiction explores the same dynamics through character—faith, fear, loyalty, and the cost of survival when the world shifts.
Books
Non-Fiction
Eight Stages: A Primer on Modern Revolution
A clear, accessible framework for understanding how revolutions form and unfold. Eight Stages shifts focus from visible events to the underlying structures that make systemic change possible.
Releasing: August 2026
Structure, Not Spectacle: A Functional Framework for Revolutionary Analysis
A practical framework for analyzing revolution, Structure, Not Spectacle focuses on the systems that enable change—not the events that merely reveal it.
Releasing: Summer 2027
I Looked Into My Soul
A memoir of service, reflection, and reckoning. I Looked Into My Soul examines conflict, purpose, and the enduring question of who we are after the work is done.
Available now
I, State Your Name…:
The Oath and the Tribe
A personal examination of oath, identity, and belonging, I, State Your Name: The Oath and the Tribe explores what it means to commit—to something larger than yourself—and what remains after the words are spoken.
Releasing: late 2027
Fiction
Psalm for the Damned
A dark, reflective story of mercy, guilt, and redemption, Psalm for the Damned follows a man who refuses to surrender his humanity—even when survival demands it.
Calum’s Journey
A Highland survivor stripped of everything is cast into a brutal new world where loyalty fails, justice is conditional, and survival demands a cost. Calum’s Journey is a story of endurance, choice, and the making of a man under pressure.
Releasing: Spring 2027
Barlow’s Hole
A quiet mountain refuge becomes the site of sudden violence. Barlow’s Hole is a story of survival, instinct, and the thin line between control and collapse when the world turns without warning.
Releasing: Winter 2027
Unprepared
When a localized blackout convinces a small community that the world has ended, fear and certainty reshape reality faster than facts ever could. Unprepared examines what happens when belief replaces truth—and why survival requires more than preparation.
Releasing: Fall 2027
Writing
Ongoing essays and analysis on revolution, conflict, and institutional fracture.