The John Maximus Chronicles Book 1
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Last published Sun, Oct 11, 2015
He walks the streets of New York City in anonymity, one face among millions. No one knows where he comes from. No one knows that he's a master of many martial arts. No one knows that he fights to keep the streets of his adopted city free of crime.
And now, John Maximus will learn that his battle against darkness in New York has merely been training for the war he was created to fight. Beings from another dimension have charged Maximus with a new mission: to retrieve an ancient object of great power that, if controlled by the wrong hands, could destroy the planet Maximus calls home.
Since before he was born, John Maximus has been tasked to play the deadliest game ever conceived against Kaos, the personification of treachery and evil. The stakes? The universe itself.
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