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{{Book|preseq=|prev=|nxtseq=|next=|series=The Daniel Codex|asin=B07K1KDP2S|img=51le89Cxw2L|blurb=
CIA agent Daniel Winters is on a mission to keep two worlds safe; he just needs to bring a guy back from the dead first.

To most, Daniel is the charming owner of an oddities shop he inherited from his grandfather.

But looks are deceiving.

Charged with keeping the worlds safe—from magicals and humans alike—Daniel leads a double life, leaving no room for anything—or anyone—else.

When a relatively straight-forward mission takes a turn, it plunges him into a dangerous new world where no one can be trusted.

He must live a lie within a lie while he works from the shadows to keep the worlds safe from a deadly new threat.

Everyone has their limits.

Will Daniel survive being pushed past his?

James Bond meets Harry Dresden in this action-packed paranormal thriller that’ll keep you guessing until the last page.
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 Daniel surprised them by grabbing one and killing him, then dropped a flash-bang into their midst. Daniel whipped out his pistol and methodically put a single round into the chest of man after man until he ran out of bullets. He snatched a gun from a blinded man, shot him with his own weapon, then used his body as a shield and put rounds into the gang members coming down the stairs. Their bodies rolled down to form a pile of dead men. He dropped the body, reloaded his own gun then stepped over the tangle of limbs and bodies and stalked slowly upstairs, pulling out a sonic grenade. After priming it he bounced it off the top of the wall and  immediately crested the stairs. Several men lay groaning on the floor. He fired two bullets into each man before ejecting his magazine and reloading. A thug charged him, and Daniel went down, but slapped his watch, and a needle popped out, with which he injected the thug. Single use paralytic agent.
-TDC 01/27  Tommy brought Daniel his morning coffee, and Tommy told him the news, that the Codex of the Sky Gods  and that the Steel Wolves had been attacked by the Baltimore gang, and had left town. There was nothing more to worry about in the neighborhood, and he was heeling well. Would be fine in a couple of days.
+TDC 01/27  Tommy brought Daniel his morning coffee, and Tommy told him the news, that the Steel Wolves had been attacked by the Baltimore gang, and had left town. There was nothing more to worry about in the neighborhood, and he was heeling well. Would be fine in a couple of days.
 Daniel went to the brownstone house, finding Ronni, Big Gnome and Madge there, working away, with lots of new stuff, holographic displays, virtual keyboards. And then they showed him their masterpiece, a three-dimensional rotating wire-frame holographic display of the Earth appeared and floated above the table. Flashing dots were spread all over it,  marking possible alien activity or artifacts.”

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 Daniel goes to a local pub, and meets with Daisy, the elf, telling her of the other aliens, besides the Oricerans, who were on Earth. She had been unaware of them. He offers her the opportunity to work with the rogue group of agents, to save the worlds, and she accepts. At the very least, it should be interesting.
-TDC 01/18  '''NEW FAMILY HISTORY’’’   Daniel and the group were involved in another D & D game, Daniel and his cohorts falling to Connor’s team because of bad luck with the dice. In his mind, he likened D & D to real life, but it wasn’t. Real life isn’t a game. My parents hit a tomb, and they didn’t come back. A good roll won’t save you when real magic is around, and the only ones who bring people back from the dead are necromancers. And after the gamers had left, he went down into the basement and looked through the keepsakes he had left from his parents. And as he thought of the dangers his parents had faced, he thought of his own situation, and about joining the new team. Is this my future? I’ll chase these aliens until one day, I disappear, and no one knows what happened to me? Will I be as smart and ready as Ronni when they come for me? Granddad stepped into the room, and confirmed that Daniel’s parents had really been looking for a Codex, the Codex of the Sky Gods, which had the unusual symbols in it. If found, it might tell how to reach the alien planet. Had nothing to do with Oricerans, but with true aliens from another place.  Daniel told him about the nozzle he had retrieved. Peter also told him that they might still be alive, somewhere. Daniel was amazed, and now knew he could NEVER walk away from the group, now.
+TDC 01/18  '''NEW FAMILY HISTORY'''   Daniel and the group were involved in another D & D game, Daniel and his cohorts falling to Connor’s team because of bad luck with the dice. In his mind, he likened D & D to real life, but it wasn’t. Real life isn’t a game. My parents hit a tomb, and they didn’t come back. A good roll won’t save you when real magic is around, and the only ones who bring people back from the dead are necromancers. And after the gamers had left, he went down into the basement and looked through the keepsakes he had left from his parents. And as he thought of the dangers his parents had faced, he thought of his own situation, and about joining the new team. Is this my future? I’ll chase these aliens until one day, I disappear, and no one knows what happened to me? Will I be as smart and ready as Ronni when they come for me? Granddad stepped into the room, and confirmed that Daniel’s parents had really been looking for a Codex, the Codex of the Sky Gods, which had the unusual symbols in it. If found, it might tell how to reach the alien planet. Had nothing to do with Oricerans, but with true aliens from another place.  Daniel told him about the nozzle he had retrieved. Peter also told him that they might still be alive, somewhere. Daniel was amazed, and now knew he could NEVER walk away from the group, now.
-TDC 01/19 '''MORE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD’’’   Daniel went out for a walk a few weeks later, and, in passing by the Florist’s shop, found three men in the alley trying to set it ablaze. As he confronted them, they ran, jumped into a van, and escaped.
+TDC 01/19 '''MORE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD'''   Daniel went out for a walk a few weeks later, and, in passing by the Florist’s shop, found three men in the alley trying to set it ablaze. As he confronted them, they ran, jumped into a van, and escaped.
 He followed in a parked car he had found running, and, when he started to lose them, implanted a GPS tracker on the van . He went back to the neighborhood, retrieved his own car, and returned to tracking the vans, which now numbered three. Using many of the gadgets in his car, he disabled all three, and , tracking the fleeing arsonists, found one of them phoning information to their leader. He grabbed the phone, and warned the voice on the other end to stop fooling with his neighborhood, as he wouldn’t play so nice next time he caught them doing anything. His Jag had gotten a few dents in the chase, and Daniel knew that Nessie wouldn’t be happy at all about that!

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 Daniel goes to a local pub, and meets with Daisy, the elf, telling her of the other aliens, besides the Oricerans, who were on Earth. She had been unaware of them. He offers her the opportunity to work with the rogue group of agents, to save the worlds, and she accepts. At the very least, it should be interesting.
-TDC 01/18  '''NEW FAMILY HISTORY’’’   Daniel and the group were involved in another D & D game, Daniel and his cohorts falling to Connor’s team because of bad luck with the dice. In his mind, he likened D & D to real life, but it wasn’t. Real life isn’t a game. My parents hit a tomb, and they didn’t come back. A good roll won’t save you when real magic is around, and the only ones who bring people back from the dead are necromancers. And after the gamers had left, he went down into the basement and looked through the keepsakes he had left from his parents. And as he thought of the dangers his parents had faced, he thought of his own situation, and about joining the new team. Is this my future? I’ll chase these aliens until one day, I disappear, and no one knows what happened to me? Will I be as smart and ready as Ronni when they come for me? Granddad stepped into the room, and confirmed that Daniel’s parents had really been looking for a Codex, the Codex of the Sky Gods, which had the unusual symbols in it. If found, it might tell how to reach the alien planet. Had nothing to do with Oricerans, but with true aliens from another place.  Daniel told him about the nozzle he had retrieved. Peter also told him that they might still be alive, somewhere. Daniel was amazed, and now knew he could NEVER walk away from the group, now'''
+TDC 01/18  '''NEW FAMILY HISTORY’’’   Daniel and the group were involved in another D & D game, Daniel and his cohorts falling to Connor’s team because of bad luck with the dice. In his mind, he likened D & D to real life, but it wasn’t. Real life isn’t a game. My parents hit a tomb, and they didn’t come back. A good roll won’t save you when real magic is around, and the only ones who bring people back from the dead are necromancers. And after the gamers had left, he went down into the basement and looked through the keepsakes he had left from his parents. And as he thought of the dangers his parents had faced, he thought of his own situation, and about joining the new team. Is this my future? I’ll chase these aliens until one day, I disappear, and no one knows what happened to me? Will I be as smart and ready as Ronni when they come for me? Granddad stepped into the room, and confirmed that Daniel’s parents had really been looking for a Codex, the Codex of the Sky Gods, which had the unusual symbols in it. If found, it might tell how to reach the alien planet. Had nothing to do with Oricerans, but with true aliens from another place.  Daniel told him about the nozzle he had retrieved. Peter also told him that they might still be alive, somewhere. Daniel was amazed, and now knew he could NEVER walk away from the group, now.
 TDC 01/19 '''MORE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD’’’   Daniel went out for a walk a few weeks later, and, in passing by the Florist’s shop, found three men in the alley trying to set it ablaze. As he confronted them, they ran, jumped into a van, and escaped.

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 Artifact, this time, is a glowing medallion. Some reports suggest it increases mobility, and others suggest that it allows people to pass through walls. It might even do both. It also remains unclear whether it only works on one person, or if it works on a group of people in a certain radius. We only know the local authorities and bounty hunters haven’t been able to track them down. Even when they get close, the thieves get away.”
 In London, Daniel is happy that this artifact wouldn’t kill someone, just help steal from them. He meets with a local back-up, to help him, Serena. She’s done her homework, and knows where the thieves will strike that night. They are on the roof, and apprehend the thieves as planned, but just as they attempt to capture them, a new group shows up, a tomb raiding group, led by John Hollingsworth V, current CEO and leader of Hollingsworth Retrieval Specialists. John and Daniel chase a thief, and it was the wrong one. (eight thieves). One of John’s men had captured the one who had been wearing the artifact. John hopped into the craft, leaving Daniel empty handed. Now Daniel would have to get the medallion from John before he could go back to America!
-Daniel goes to a local pub, and meets with Daisy, the elf, telling her of the other aliens, besides the Oricerans, who were on Earth. She had been unaware of them. He offers her the opportunity to work with the rogue group of agents, to save the worlds, and she accepts. At the very least, it should be interestin'''
+Daniel goes to a local pub, and meets with Daisy, the elf, telling her of the other aliens, besides the Oricerans, who were on Earth. She had been unaware of them. He offers her the opportunity to work with the rogue group of agents, to save the worlds, and she accepts. At the very least, it should be interesting.
 TDC 01/18  '''NEW FAMILY HISTORY’’’   Daniel and the group were involved in another D & D game, Daniel and his cohorts falling to Connor’s team because of bad luck with the dice. In his mind, he likened D & D to real life, but it wasn’t. Real life isn’t a game. My parents hit a tomb, and they didn’t come back. A good roll won’t save you when real magic is around, and the only ones who bring people back from the dead are necromancers. And after the gamers had left, he went down into the basement and looked through the keepsakes he had left from his parents. And as he thought of the dangers his parents had faced, he thought of his own situation, and about joining the new team. Is this my future? I’ll chase these aliens until one day, I disappear, and no one knows what happened to me? Will I be as smart and ready as Ronni when they come for me? Granddad stepped into the room, and confirmed that Daniel’s parents had really been looking for a Codex, the Codex of the Sky Gods, which had the unusual symbols in it. If found, it might tell how to reach the alien planet. Had nothing to do with Oricerans, but with true aliens from another place.  Daniel told him about the nozzle he had retrieved. Peter also told him that they might still be alive, somewhere. Daniel was amazed, and now knew he could NEVER walk away from the group, now'''
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 TDC 01/26  Daniel checks out information with a contact he knows, and finds that this is a new gang, calling themselves  the Steel Wolves. Used to be a decent-sized gang in Baltimore, but they started some shit with an Ori gang, and it didn’t end well. Lost most of their guys and kind of disappeared until rumors of them hitting the DC area started popping up. A little over thirty guys survived.  They learned firsthand how a good gun don’t always work against magic. They’ve got a house they’re renting in DC until they take over their new neighborhood. They are pretty vicious, and into the full package of rape, murder, and assault.” And Daniel decided When you break the rules, you have to be punished. That’s simply the way things are.
- Daniel went to their neighborhood, and ascertained that there were over two dozen of them in their house. He contacted them, finding them as dumb and arrogant as he had assumed and, posing as a Mafia agent (their assumption), went in. He was recognized by one of the thugs he had previously beaten, and so asked to talk to their leader. T.E. came forward, challenging Daniel. Threatened to take him down with the gang, one against many.
+Daniel went to their neighborhood, and ascertained that there were over two dozen of them in their house. He contacted them, finding them as dumb and arrogant as he had assumed and, posing as a Mafia agent (their assumption), went in. He was recognized by one of the thugs he had previously beaten, and so asked to talk to their leader. T.E. came forward, challenging Daniel. Threatened to take him down with the gang, one against many.
 Daniel surprised them by grabbing one and killing him, then dropped a flash-bang into their midst. Daniel whipped out his pistol and methodically put a single round into the chest of man after man until he ran out of bullets. He snatched a gun from a blinded man, shot him with his own weapon, then used his body as a shield and put rounds into the gang members coming down the stairs. Their bodies rolled down to form a pile of dead men. He dropped the body, reloaded his own gun then stepped over the tangle of limbs and bodies and stalked slowly upstairs, pulling out a sonic grenade. After priming it he bounced it off the top of the wall and  immediately crested the stairs. Several men lay groaning on the floor. He fired two bullets into each man before ejecting his magazine and reloading. A thug charged him, and Daniel went down, but slapped his watch, and a needle popped out, with which he injected the thug. Single use paralytic agent.
-TDC 01/27  Tommy brought Daniel his morning coffee, and Tommy told him the news, that the Steel WCodex of the Sky godsolves had been attacked by the Baltimore gang, and had left town. There was nothing more to worry about in the neighborhood, and he was heeling well. Would be fine in a couple of days.
+TDC 01/27  Tommy brought Daniel his morning coffee, and Tommy told him the news, that the Codex of the Sky Gods  and that the Steel Wolves had been attacked by the Baltimore gang, and had left town. There was nothing more to worry about in the neighborhood, and he was heeling well. Would be fine in a couple of days.
-Daniel went to the brownstone house, finding Ronni, Big Gnome and Madge there, working away, with lots of new stuff, holographic displays, virtual keyboards. And then they showed him their masterpiece, a three-dimensional rotating wireframe holographic display of the Earth appeared and floated above the table. Flashing dots were spread all over it,  marking possible alien activity or artifacts.”
+Daniel went to the brownstone house, finding Ronni, Big Gnome and Madge there, working away, with lots of new stuff, holographic displays, virtual keyboards. And then they showed him their masterpiece, a three-dimensional rotating wire-frame holographic display of the Earth appeared and floated above the table. Flashing dots were spread all over it,  marking possible alien activity or artifacts.”
 His parents had been seeking, a source of information that would lead them to a gateway to another world, ‘’The Codex of the Sky Gods’’, and when he saw the three-dimensional holographic representation of the Earth and its artifacts in the Rogue meeting room, he knew that he had now his own source of information that might lead him not only to that gateway but to his own codex. I’ll protect my neighborhood, country, and planet from all enemies foreign and domestic. Human or magical. Terrestrial or extraterrestrial.
 The Daniel Codex was operational.

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	CIA agent Daniel Winters is on a mission to keep two worlds safe; he just needs to bring a guy back from the dead first.		CIA agent Daniel Winters is on a mission to keep two worlds safe; he just needs to bring a guy back from the dead first.