Daniel X: Genesis

Daniel X: Genesis is a full-cast Audible Original written by James Patterson and Aaron Tracy, produced as a scripted audio drama rather than a printed novel. It tells the origin of Daniel, the alien hunter at the centre of Patterson's Daniel X books.

Daniel's sixteenth birthday begins as an unremarkable day — late for school, homework unfinished, a crush who barely knows he exists. It ends with the discovery that he can conjure anything he imagines simply by thinking it, and that the car accident he was told killed his parents was in fact a battle with an intergalactic villain. Daniel is not a human teenager at all.

The production is performed by Michael Cimino as Daniel, with Abigail Breslin, Jimmi Simpson, Mercedes Ruehl and a full supporting cast, scored with an original soundtrack. It runs a few hours and is aimed at the same young-adult audience as the series it precedes.