Nolan Garrett is at war…with his own ordnance!His cutting-edge combat suit: hacked.His high-tech weaponry: dismantled.His AI: inoperative.All he has left are his wits and the help of the drugged-out Silverguard he rescued from her addiction.His enemy is one he can’t see, can’t stab, can’t shoot. Hidden behind the technology that made Nolan the Nyzarian Empire’s deadliest assassin, the mysterious … Nyzarian Empire’s deadliest assassin, the mysterious hacker known only as Ex-Umbra is a threat his elite soldier training could never prepare him for.
Unless Nolan can put him down in time, Ex-Umbra is out to reveal the truth about his existence to the entire galaxy…
Cerberus: Cyber Strike is the third book in the action-packed, futuristic space opera Cerberus series. If you like cloak-and-dagger thrillers, aerial gunfights, and edge-of-your-seat action, you’ll love Andy Peloquin’s kickass sci-fi saga.
Buy Cerberus: Cyber Strike now and dive into this high-octane series!
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Nolan has **MAJOR ** problems.
Taia is compromised, Bex has
increasingly serious health issues
and a nasty cyber-villain is making
** far ** too much trouble.
Gripping, involving and entertaining
are only some of the adjectives applicable
to this story.
Read it to find out the resolution.
Enjoy !!
Phyllis S.
Cereberus is back but TAIA is having issues. She keeps having glitches until Nolan gets zapped. When TAIA recovers she says that the last four years of his data has been downloaded. On a mission, he is looking for heat signatures until he realizes it is a cyber entity and it knows his every move. Ex-Umbra is a hacker who is out to get him. He wants Nolan to come out and admit he is Cereberus and confess to everything he has done, otherwise TAIA will be terminated. But how do you fight someone who knows your every move?
Love it. Excellent book.
Five Stars for episode 3!
In typical Peloquin style this new episode will engage your hyperdrive and start your brain humming as our hero (currently in a forced affiation) is targeted by a frighteningly skilled hacker who has hacked not only Nolan’s supporting gear but even his closest (and pretty much only) companion, his Artificial Intelligence Talia. He’s being outguessed at every turn as dogmatic “righteousness” (in his own mind) individual tries to paint Nolan as a champion of the establishment and remove him from the playing field. There is one other resource for Nolan – a young lady he rescued from drug addiction and a violent past, who is working on her recovery while Nolan provides room and board. So how can he rely on her any more than his hacked AI? Don’t plan on making this book an occasional read – you will not want to put it down!
This the 3rd book in this gut wrenching and heart stopping series, Cyber Strike I found to be one of the most powerful challenges Nolan Garrett had to face so far. He and Taia, his AI, who is also his sole companion and his eyes, ears and legs come up against a hacker who calls himself Ex-Umbra and his own AI and his intent is to take Taia out of action because in so doing Nolan would stand no chance at all. Ex-Umbra says that he is on the side of truth and justice and out to fight those like Nolan who he labels defenders of the status quo and a hero of Imperial Omnipotency, he believes his cause is righteous as he is a zealot who wants to wake up humanity. He pretends to give Nolan a chance to come clean by confessing his sins to the people and speaking out against the Bureau to save his life, however he then goes back on his word as soon as he realizes Nolan will fight him before capitulating to his demands. Then there is Bex, the woman Nolan had saved and helped get clean from drugs who is living in hiding in his flat and who had previously also been a Silverguard. She came with her own baggage, and in the same way that the Bureau were keeping Nolan working for them because they held his brother Jared in the rehabilitation tank, so did Oversight, the military police Bex was working undercover for, keep her from being with her daughter Rosette. Once they come clean about their mutual secrets and start to build trust between them, Bex and Nolan go all out to fight their biggest challenge yet. I just loved the tension building of the story, as usual I really enjoy the growing repertoire of sarcasm Taia is managing to learn and use and am really looking forward to reading Book 4 in this captivating Series written in the usual Peloquin style which focuses as much on emotions and the humanity of it’s characters as it does on the magnificent fighting scenes which are described down to the minute details of weaponry used, and high tech gear which turn Nolan, a paraplegic into Cerberus, our great heroic assassin.
What an action-packed cyber-thriller! No clue who the antagonist is until the end, out of this world tech, the protagonist running for his life… What a ride! The protagonist using Cerberus’ own strength and skills against him, using proxies to attack, and never revealing himself until he makes that fatal mistake. I couldn’t put it down.
Having to face an adversary that can accurately predict your every movement, no average joe would survive. But This main character is not your average joe. I am thoroughly enjoying the heart pounding action of this series, as well as this authors ability to weave touchy subject life challenges into these tales. Definitely want more of Nolan, Kali, and Taia. All my reviews are always voluntarily written.
Fascinating!! I’m not a tech geek at all but I have a tiny bit of understanding to what it takes to create such a world as the Nyzarian Empire, and New Avalon. Mr Peloquin uses superb world building, computer and military strategy and includes a deep understanding of human emotions in his writing. Reading Cyber Strike is like watching an Iron Man movie with all the hi-tech gear or MIB and their unusual array of weapons and a good ‘who did it’ mystery. I don’t imagine the main character Nolan Garrett’s flat as being large but it is packed with every type of ultra modern arsenal he can get his hands on plus his amazing combat armor. Taia is Nolans AI implant that is connected to his brain and nervous system and his armor. Taia allows him to go from wheelchair bound to the walking, flying, fighting assassin Cerberus. In this installment Taia is under attack by a hacker and he is physically crippling Nolan and frying Taia. Bex was introduced in the last novel Terminal Secrets. In Cyber Strike we get more of her background and somehow she may be linked to Nolan’s and Taia’s crippling attacks, we don”t know. It’s a mental cat and mouse game between the mysterious hacker and Nolan. Nolan is running out of time and it’s down to the wire for him in this life and death situation. There’s a lot of fast action with tons of surprises.