Dangerous Minds

Dangerous Minds is the first book in the Cyrus Cooper series. These novels follow the protagonist, Cyrus Cooper, as he navigates the pitfalls and perils associated with his role as the youngest field agent for the secret law enforcement organization known as the Coalition.

Book One launches the series with Cyrus going undercover as the personal assistant for an elderly seventy-four-year-old neurobiologist who has recently come under attack from an unknown enemy. Gertrude Waterford is as cantankerous as she is brilliant, but since she has refused personal protective services, Cyrus must find a way to protect her without her knowledge. It’s a job made more difficult once he realizes that Gertrude’s career has been spent genetically enhancing test subjects, and engineering some with paranormal-like abilities. The threat against her is likely the result of her past work, as are the attempts on her life. As such, they are not the kind of threats that a bodyguard is accustomed to facing.

Cyrus must uncover the source of the threats against Waterford while learning the truth of her top-secret work. At the same time, he grows to suspect that his agency’s interest in Waterford is not as altruistic as he was led to believe. What he discovers along the way threatens to change the way he sees everything, and everyone, in the world around him.