Protect And Serve

<p><strong>PROTECT AND SERVE</strong><br><strong>Book 1 of the Nocturne Saga</strong><br>by James McCarthy</p><p>They broke Cain Bishop.</p><p>Once a loyal cop in a city rotting from the inside out he lost everything when the system he served turned on him. Betrayed brutalized left for dead Cain wasn't saved by justice - he was claimed by something else. Something born of grief rage and the twisted experiments buried deep within Nocturne's darkest alleys.</p><p>Resurrected by a mutagenic serum meant to erase him Cain becomes more than a man. His flesh can break and rebuild itself. His grief sharpens into claws. His sorrow calcifies into unbreakable armor. But every gift comes at a price - and Cain's humanity is slipping away with every step he takes toward vengeance.</p><p>When he returns the city barely recognizes the monster it created.</p><p>They call him Nocturne.</p><p>Nocturne doesn't seek justice. He delivers reckoning.</p><p>Corrupt cops human traffickers and the twisted elites hiding behind blood-money empires all find themselves hunted in the choking shadows of a city that has forgotten how to fight for itself. But as Cain tears into the city's underbelly a deeper evil watches from behind the walls - the Surgeon the architect of Cain's transformation and the mind behind a far deadlier plan.</p><p>Cain's war is not just against criminals. It's against a system designed to devour hope. Against science wielded like a scalpel. Against the monsters who believe they can breed suffering into submission.</p><p>But as Cain's powers grow and his mind frays he faces a brutal truth:<br>You can't protect a world already dead.<br>You can only decide how loud it screams before the end.</p><p><strong>PROTECT AND SERVE</strong> is the first brutal chapter of the Nocturne Saga - a dark adrenaline-soaked thriller for fans of <em>The Crow</em> <em>Punisher: Max</em> and <em>The Boys</em>.<br>If you crave visceral action tragic antiheroes and a city that bleeds on every page Cain Bishop's war will leave scars you won't forget.</p>