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LUKE DANIELS

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Full Name: Luke Daniels
Nationality: American
Organization: Magellan Billet
Occupation Agent

Creator: Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Time Span: 2023 - 2024

ABOUT THE SERIES

Luke Daniels is an agent with the Magellan Billet.

As explained elsewhere in the adventures of a fellow operative for that organization, Cottom Malone, the Billet is a division inside the Justice Department that concentrates on international investigations. It is described as "twelve lawyers the Justice Department put together to do some very specialized things." While not spies per se, their assignments are world-wide, varied, exotic, and highly dangerous.

I mentioned Malone because he is talked about immediately after mentioning Daniels in the first recorded adventure; said comment tells us that Daniels "dad only allowed one man to ever get the best of him" and that man was Malone; The 'best' being an "upper cut out of nowhere" on their first meeting. Their relationship would improve, luckily, though Malone would ask Daniels if he was "always such a smart-ass". Daniels, it is interesting to note, did not argue with the assessment. Of course, the 'disagreement' seems to have started when the much younger and junior Daniels referred to Malone as 'Pappy".

Malone had been cautioning against rash actions in the excitement of a situation, something that Daniels is well aware of doing. "Army Rangers weren't sit-on-your-hands types. More direct action, and Luke had never rid himself of that bold audacity". He had joined the Army right out of high school, foregoing college and staying in for a decade. Once out, he tried for the CIA but had not made it past the second interview. That is when Magellan Billet Director, Stephanie Nelle, gave him a call and offered him a position. She did make it clear, though, that he would receive absolutely no special treatment being the nephew of a close friend of her, former U.S. President Danny Daniels.

When we take up with his activities, after the remembrance of his earlier time with Malone, he has been with the Billet for a few years and has more than earned his way, as well as his reputation for someone who got things done. He might still be a tad impetuous and still have a few things to learn but he is seasoned.

Good Lines:
- Advice given by Malone about going into a new situation, "Haste makes for a wasted agent".

BOOKS

Number of Books:2
First Appearance:2023
Last Appearance:2024

1 The 9th Man The 9th Man
Written by Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Copyright: 2023

"Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend.  Jillian Stein is in trouble.  She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger.  She needs Luke’s help.  Immediately.  Racing to Belgium Luke quickly finds that she was right.  A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the hunt.  Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides — one seeking the truth, the other trying to escape the past — a war that has already claimed one life and is about to claim more."
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2 Red Star Falling Red Star Falling
Written by Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Copyright: 2024

"Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus — a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion.  Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed.  But Luke is provided some shocking news.  Vince is alive, in failing health, locked behind the walls of Russia’s brutal Solovetsky Island prison, and has a critical message he’ll give to no one but Luke.  Needing no further convincing Luke vows to bring Vince home."
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