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THE VANGUARD PROTOCOL

What if the game was never a game?

Millions of people play Vanguard.

Breaker plays it differently.

Where other players fight their way through alien ships, Breaker disables them. Boards them. Tears them apart. Figures out how they work. Then uses what he learns against the next enemy.

It made him one of Vanguard's most unusual players.

Then he discovers something impossible.

Vanguard is real.

The ships are real.

The alien civilizations are real.

And the enemies he has been fighting inside the game have no idea humanity exists.

Yet.


A science-fiction LitRPG series following humanity's transformation from an isolated civilization into something the galaxy never expected.

The story begins with one player discovering the truth behind Vanguard.

It doesn't stay small for long.

The series grows from individual survival and alien technology to planetary defense, orbital warfare, interstellar civilization, ancient mysteries, and eventually the system governing it all.

Book One: BREAKER

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Breaker

The Vanguard Protocol - Book 1

When elite Vanguard player Breaker reaches a hidden threshold inside the game, he discovers that humanity's most popular science-fiction MMO is something far more dangerous than entertainment.

The battles are real.

The technology is real.

And the unconventional skills that made him successful inside Vanguard may be humanity's best chance to survive what’s coming.

But first, Breaker has a more immediate problem.

Someone is hunting the people who discover the truth.

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