Nolan Garrett is Cerberus. A government assassin, tasked with fixing the galaxy’s darkest, ugliest problems with a bullet to the brain. Armed with cutting-edge weapons and an AI-run cybernetic suit that controls his paralyzed legs, he is the fist in the shadows, the dagger to the heart of the Nyzarian Empire’s enemies.Then he found Bex on his doorstep… high on the drug he’d fought for years to avoid, and a former elite soldier like him. So he takes her in to help her get clean—Silverguards never leave their own behind.
If only he’d known his actions would put him in the crosshairs of the most powerful cartel in New Avalon.
Facing an army of gangbangers, drug pushers, and thugs, Nolan must fight to not only carry out his mission, but to prevent the escalating violence from destroying everything he loves.
Cerberus: Assassination Protocol is the riveting, heart-pounding first book in the epic military sci-fi Cerberus series. If you like fearless heroes, non-stop futuristic action, and neck-breaking plot twists, you’ll love Andy Peloquin’s thrilling space opera series.
Buy Cerberus: Assassination Protocol now to watch an assassin fight to protect the innocent!
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I loved this story! It was intriguing and kept me reading until the end as I just couldn’t put it down. I loved the AI and all the wonderful techy things in there. But what I most liked about it was Cerberus himself. What a great character! I loved the book! It was entertaining, well written, and the world building was GREAT! I would highly recommend this story!
Nolan Garrett was a Silverguard, one the elite soldiers in the Nyzarian Empire until a frag grenade’s shrapnel lodged into his spin. Now he is confined to a wheelchair or that’s what everyone thinks. He is actually a government assassin with the help on a combat suit that is helped run by an AI named TAIA. Before becoming Cereberus, Nolan had a drug problem. Another Silverguard helped to get him clean, but she died in the process.
Nolan has to keep a low profile, but there is currently some gangbangers coming up the stairs after a drugged out woman outside his door that has a Silverguard tattoo. Nolan made a promise to help someone else and the Silvergard motto is no one left behind.
After rescuing the girl, Bex, he must take on the gang and somehow come out on top.
This is a new genre for Andy and I really loved the book. If you are used to Andy’s Old World Military and Assassin novels this is different but only in his world building. Andy’s compassion for his characters and the military comradery and human frailties are a part of this fast pace Sci-fi drama. In a neon town, reminiscent of Blade Runner, our main character Nolan Garrett of the Silverguard ex special forces is down on his luck due to a paralyzing military accident. Now living on the streets in a back alley with an addiction he is recognized by another ex special forces friend, Tanis, who helps him out of his black hell hole. She cleans him up and gives him a job with the Protection Bureau. He raises up as Cerberus an assassin working for Agent Styver of the Protection Bureau. Assassination Protocol (Ceberus#1) takes off like a rocket that never slows and we get to enjoy that special way Mr. Peloquin’s creates his novels with aplomb. You’ll have to pick up the book to see what happens, no spoilers here, this series is a hit.
I highly recommend this book.
Overall rating: 5
This definitely gives a reader in your face intensity from page one. Filled with action packed pages I’ve come to expect, this author brings clarity and reality to every scene as well as showcasing the most challenging of topics in existence. Being able to weave drug addiction and physical handicaps into a fast paced sci fi/military tale is just mind boggling! Can’t wait for book two. All my reviews are always voluntarily written.
Excellent! A paralyzed assassin working for a secret government department (not entirely voluntarily). Cerberus is a highly trained operator, but the intelligence (or lack there of) on his assigned missions, may well get even him killed. The well crafted story includes none stop action, humor, and some excellent deductive reasoning. This story is very different from other series by this author except in being a very well written, thought out, and entertaining tale with wonderful characters that you quickly care about. I highly recommend this action packed new series.
I received this as an arc
I was not a sci-fi reader before reviewing it this book. Andy Peloquin has done it again. He goes from epic fantasy to military fantasy and now sci fi. This story kept me gripped throughout. His writing seems effortless and the reader can tell he has researched all parts of the story. Nolan is an awesome character along with his AI. If your looking for action, adventure, intrigue you will find it here.
Cerberus aka Nolan Garrett, one time Silverguard, the cream of the crop until a bullet took him in the spine and made him a cripple, lost him his job, his colleagues and almost his life as he became a lowlife drug addict living in the bolt hole, the slums in New Avalon. Then Tanis found him and cleaned him up and got him a job as an assassin for the Protection Bureau. Now he was just known as Cerberus and he followed orders given to him by Agent Styver, who kept him doing the dirty killer work because the bureau had his young brother in a redemption tank where unless he could save him he would be lost forever. Nolan worked with his AI, Taia who saved his butt so many times through her precise and accurate eye for the little details. Nolan hated the drug pushers with a vengeance and in this story he goes all out to take out the kingpins of the three powerful gangs in a breath taking, nail biting, edge of the seat kind of way, which Andy Peloquin’s stories always end up taking. I love the rush of the battle and the chase as Nolan a paraplegic jumps from skyscraper heights and from one building to another thanks to the high tech suit the bureau has gifted him with. Nolan is a changed man once in that suit. I love Taia’s character she brings some caustic wit to the tense story also love the kindness and loyalty Nolan shows towards those more vulnerable, who he can take care of, this side makes Nolan really humane as only those who have suffered usually know how to be. He is also very sharp and can smell a rat from miles away, so who is the rat and traitor in this game he is being asked to play? The ending to the book left me needing the next book in the series in my hands asap, so bring it on Andy Peloquin.
Another OUTSTANDING series from this
amazing author !!
What more can I, or NEED I, say !!??
Enjoy !!
Phyllis S.