Pre-Order Bad Dogs: The Complete Story Official Release Date: February 17, 2026

Ken Gordon Jr. is a storyteller, leader, pastor, and lifelong student of identity, power, and belonging. Bad Dogs: The Complete Story draws from his lived experience as a young Black cadet navigating discipline, expectation, and survival inside a system not built with him in mind—and the man he would later become because of it.

Ken writes with unflinching honesty about boyhood, manhood, and the cost of learning too early how the world categorizes those it does not fully see or recognize. His work explores the quiet moments between rebellion and obedience, the line between discipline and dehumanization, and the lasting imprint of environments that demand conformity without understanding.

Ken is the pastor of House of Light Church, where he encourages others to live authentic, judgment-free lives—seeking to be better today than they were yesterday. Ken is a lifetime member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and a Diamond Life Member of the NAACP. He is the author of several books, including Combat Zone: Navigating Corporate America While Black, where many of the themes first surfaced in Bad Dogs are carried forward into adulthood. Together, his work forms a continuum—examining how early conditioning shapes confidence, ambition, relationships, and faith.

Ken is a husband, father, faith leader, and mentor. He believes stories are not just told to remember the past, but to reclaim it—and to give language to those who were never meant to survive, let alone speak. Bad Dogs: The Complete Story is both a reckoning and a release.