• Complain

James Patterson - Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Here you can read online James Patterson - Dangerous Days of Daniel X full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. genre: Detective and thriller. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover

Dangerous Days of Daniel X: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Dangerous Days of Daniel X" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

The greatest superpower of all isnt to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells the greatest power is the power to create. Daniel has that power. Daniels secret abilities like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses have helped him survive. But Daniel doesnt have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone could imagine. From the day that his parents were brutally murdered in front of his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List bequeathed to him in his parents dying breath, he has located the killer. Now, on his own, he vows to take on his fathers mission-and to have vengeance in the process.

James Patterson: author's other books


Who wrote Dangerous Days of Daniel X? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Dangerous Days of Daniel X — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Dangerous Days of Daniel X" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
James Patterson Michael Ledwidge Dangerous Days of Daniel X A book in the - photo 1

James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Dangerous Days of Daniel X

A book in the Daniel X series

For Jack, Keelan, Cara, and Brynna

True Confessions

IF THIS WERE A MOVIE instead of real life, this would be the part where in a strange, ominous voice Id say, Take me to your leader!

But since you are far more important in making a difference in this world than the earths leaders, and last time I checked on the Internet those leaders seem to have more than enough on their plates, and for the most part Im not a total dork, Ill just go with a simple Hi.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one.

Why should you read it? Very good question.

Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know whats actually happening on it.

And more important, off it.

Trust me, there are legions of strange and disturbing creatures out there you probably dont want to know about.

Like the fast-breeding creeps with burnt-looking me*tallic faces and deer horns bristling above hornet noses and stingers, who populate the American Midwest and parts of Europe. Or some very nasty sluglike thingies with jowls like water balloons about to burst all over much of Japan and China, as well as New York City and Vancouver. Plus a host of human-skeletonish freaks with tentacle hair and green multifaceted fly eyes; some white chocolate-colored cretins that look like giant human babies, only with glowing television fuzz for their eyes and mouths; and a praying mantis-looking race with shrunken heads, long red dreadlocks, and a pathetic need to kill, operating in the general area of Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Maybe I should stop talking, though, before I get too far ahead of myself.

To those of you who feel that youve heard enough, let me say Im sorry I had to give you a glimpse of whats really out there, and would you please close the cover of this book down tightly on your way out.

Now, the rest of you, I need you to do three important things.

1. Take a deep, deep breath.

2. Disregard everything anyone has ever told you about life on earth.

3. Turn the page.

Prologue

THAT WRETCHED LIST

One

I WISH THAT I didnt sometimes, but I remember everything about that cursed, unspeakably unhappy night twelve years ago, when I was just three years old and both my parents were murdered.

I was taking an ordinary can of Play-Doh down from the playroom shelf when my mom called from the top of the basement stairs.

Daniel? Dinner will be ready in five minutes. Time to start wrapping things up, honey.

Finish? Already? I made a face. But my latest masterpiece isnt done yet!

Yes, Mom, I called. One minute. Im making Play-Doh history down here.

Of course you are, dear. I would expect nothing less. Love you. Always.

Love you back, Mom. Always.

In case youve already noticed that I didnt speak like a typical three-year-old, well, you should have seen what I was building.

I stared at the museum-quality replica of the Lighthouse of Alexandria I was trying to finish.

Behind it, all the way to the edge of my worktable, stood matchless reproductions Id made of the remaining Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

The Mausoleum of Mausolus

The Colossus of Rhodes

I would have liked to do the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Chrysler Building as well, but I was only allowed one hour of playtime a day.

I squinted suddenly as I spotted what looked like a tiny, flat black seed climbing up the side of my miniature lighthouse, and really moving too.

Whoa there, little guy! Where do you think youre motoring to?

It was an Arthropoda Arachnida Acari Metastigmata, I thought, recalling the phylum, class, order, and suborder of the tiny creature at a glance. A tick. A young male dog tick, to be exact.

Hey, little fella, I whispered to the tick. You on a sightseeing tour?

Two things happened next, almost simultaneously. Two very odd and unforgettable things.

There was a strange shimmering at the back of my bright, turquoise-blue eyes.

And the tick slowly rose onto its hind legs and said, Hey, Daniel, my brother, you do real nice work. Cool lighthouse!

Two

I LAUGHED HYSTERICALLY as the lickety-split-quick tick crawled higher and higher on the lighthouse. Well, technically I was the one making it crawl, and tell jokes.

With my mind!

Yes, you heard that correctly. I was causing the tick to do tricks and also talk. Its a talent I have. Long story. Good story, but not for right now. Something earth-shattering was about to happen at our house.

Anyway, I had the little fellow give a wave before it flipped forward and did a one-clawed handstand on the top of the lighthouse.

And at that exact, unforgettable instant, I suddenly flew back off the bench as a wall-shaking explosion detonated in the room above my head.

Something enormous had just crashed into the kitchen! Was it a freight train? A plane?

A sick feeling ripped through my stomach. Where was my mom?

The List! I now heard a deep, strangled voice roar from the kitchen above. You think you can hide it from me! I know you have The List. And I want it! NOW!

I climbed to my feet, my mouth open, my eyes wide and locked onto the ceiling.

Dont hurt us! Please! my mother sobbed. Who are you? What list?

Wait, wait. Hold on, I heard my father say. Lower the gun, my friend. Ill get The List for you. I have it nearby.

The List is here? The deep voice loomed once again. Right here? In this pathetic little hovel in Kansas, of all places?

Yes. Now if youll just lower the -

I fell to the floor again as a string of deafening explosions drowned out my fathers voice. Shooting, I thought, my eyes clenched shut, my hands flying to my ears. An Opus 24/24, I realized with the same instantaneous knowledge that Id had about the Arthropoda Arachnida Acari Metastigmata, the dog tick.

Then I heard my father call out, We love you, Daniel. Always.

The clanging echo of the shots hung in the silence after the Opus finally stopped.

Stay right there. Dont get up, either of you. As if you could, the stranger said with a nasty laugh. Ill go find The List myself.

Mom? I thought, tears flooding down my cheeks. Dad?

Then another terrible thought entered my mind, and it was bright and urgent as a neon sign.

The aliens are here, I whispered, and reached up and clicked off the basement light. I prepared to be eaten, or maybe worse.

Three

I WAS TREMBLING and pressing my small, vulnerable body up against an old water heater, petrified about what might have just happened to my mom and dad, when a beam of violet-tinged light shone down the stairs into the basement.

And then I saw it-a six-and-a-half-foot-tall praying mantis. At least it had taken that terrible form tonight.

From behind the water heater, I stared in horror at the creatures long, grossly bulging, plum-colored body, its small, almost shrunken head, its large, liquid-black eyes. What a foul beast! It had long, stringy red dreadlocks hanging down between its antennae, and a dull black metal assault rifle cradled in its sharply jointed arms.

I know youre down here, boy, the XXL-sized insect said with a slow, horrifying roll of its stalklike neck. I am called The Prayer, and there is very little that The Prayer does not know. If you come to me now, I may go easy on you.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Dangerous Days of Daniel X»

Look at similar books to Dangerous Days of Daniel X. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Dangerous Days of Daniel X»

Discussion, reviews of the book Dangerous Days of Daniel X and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.