Techno-Thriller · 12 Books
The Vanguard Protocol
A Twelve-Volume Mosaic Techno-Thriller
Twelve specialists. Twelve overlapping missions. One war none of them can see in full — until the company they fight for becomes the enemy they have to destroy.
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About the series
In the Republic of Odiristan, a Caspian state sitting atop the world’s encrypted-data backbone, a tier-one private military contractor takes a routine stabilization contract. What follows is twelve books of overlapping operations — a breacher in the marshes, an intel officer in a hide-site, a fixer cleaning up a frame job — each running their own mission, each catching a different piece of the same conspiracy.
Their employer, ARES, is selling the war to both sides. The man behind it has been waiting a decade for this. And the only way to stop the signal that is about to take over the western hemisphere’s automated infrastructure is for twelve specialists to stop running their own books and converge on a single target.
Every volume is a complete operation. Every operation is a piece of one rolling truth. An explosion heard in the distance by Oracle in Book Two is the climax of Book One. The evidence Wraith finds in Book Four is the proof Sterling needs in Book Six. The series is engineered to be re-read.
The Twelve Books
The Breach
Vanguard 1-1 — callsign Viper — has spent a career kicking down the right doors. When his team breaches a derelict Soviet lighthouse on the Caspian coast expecting local insurgents, they find something else: tier-one operators in disguise, a server stack already self-destructing, and a hard drive with a corporate logo no one on the team has ever seen. The bodies don’t add up. The man who killed them realises he’s been hunting the wrong enemy.
The Signal
An NSA-trained intel officer in a hide-site discovers the satellite jamming her drones is one of her own. Oracle hears in the distance what Viper, two days east, has just lived through.
The Asset
A Ukrainian veteran walks an asset he can’t trust through a marsh that’s actively trying to kill them both. The asset knows a name. The marsh knows where the bodies go.
The Cleaners
A corporate liquidator arrives to sanitise a black site. She finds a frame job already in progress — and learns who is being framed for what only after she has helped them do it.
The Dark Site
An undercover infiltrator at an ARES gala has thirty minutes to clone a CEO before the security drones turn on the guests. Tuxedo, ballroom, kill-switch.
Zero-Hour
The man who built the Vanguard Group fires off the books to stop the signal his own company is selling. The series’ hinge. After this volume, every previous book reads differently.
The Long Watch
Cut off and alone in the freezing mountains, a sniper becomes the only thing standing between her hunted team and a hunter-killer net. One scope. One ridge. One promise to keep.
The Triage
In a Soviet bunker, a disgraced trauma surgeon fights to keep his bleeding teammates alive while ARES drills overhead. The series’ smallest setting and its hardest hour.
The Catalyst
Out of military-grade explosives, a saboteur builds a new arsenal from an enemy city’s industrial waste. The series’ quietest kind of mayhem — chemistry, patience, and an inventory list nobody is supposed to read.
The Extraction
A grounded special-ops pilot steals a National Guard helicopter and threads it nap-of-the-earth through a city closing the net. Eleven minutes of rotor.
The Boardroom
A defected ARES executive wages economic warfare from a server room — until the men she sold out come for her in person. The book where the suit becomes the operator.
The Vanguard Protocol
The surviving specialists converge on the ARES Citadel for a one-way raid that will either bury the truth or burn it into the world. The closing volume. Twelve careers spent. One protocol left to execute.
For readers of
Brad Thor’s Scot Harvath, Mark Greaney’s Gray Man, Jack Carr’s James Reece, and Don Bentley’s Matt Drake.