Books with author Daniel Adam Day

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud.”—Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, 13th, and A Wrinkle in Time With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, and a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books. In this remarkable memoir, he tells his full story for the first time. Decade after decade, Dapper Dan discovered creative ways to flourish in a country designed to privilege certain Americans over others. He witnessed, profited from, and despised the rise of two drug epidemics. He invented stunningly bold credit card frauds that took him around the world. He paid neighborhood kids to jog with him in an effort to keep them out of the drug game. And when he turned his attention to fashion, he did so with the energy and curiosity with which he approaches all things: learning how to treat fur himself when no one would sell finished fur coats to a Black man; finding the best dressed hustler in the neighborhood and converting him into a customer; staying open twenty-four hours a day for nine years straight to meet demand; and, finally, emerging as a world-famous designer whose looks went on to define an era, dressing cultural icons including Eric B. and Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, Mike Tyson, Alpo Martinez, LL Cool J, Jam Master Jay, Diddy, Naomi Campbell, and Jay-Z. By turns playful, poignant, thrilling, and inspiring, Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem is a high-stakes coming-of-age story spanning more than seventy years and set against the backdrop of an America where, as in the life of its narrator, the only constant is change.Praise for Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem“Dapper Dan is a true one of a kind, self-made, self-liberated, and the sharpest man you will ever see. He is couture himself.”—Marcus Samuelsson, New York Times bestselling author of Yes, Chef“What James Baldwin is to American literature, Dapper Dan is to American fashion. He is the ultimate success saga, an iconic fashion hero to multiple generations, fusing street with high sartorial elegance. He is pure American style.”—André Leon Talley, Vogue contributing editor and author

While vacationing at the Grand Canyon, and completely surrounded by Secret Service agents, Trace Sawyer, the President of the United States's son, goes around a corner and disappears into thin air. With every minute counting, the Secret Service pulls out all stops and blankets the South Rim of the Canyon with men but seven hours later, they don't have a single clue as to what happened to him. Desperate, the First Lady has the President call Troy Barclay to assist in the search but as an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent, he and his partner, Amber Neilson, are as welcome as a bad case of flu. By themselves they go to the location where Trace went missing and five minutes later, Troy figures it out. When he tells the President and First Lady how their son was kidnapped, they are amazed and the President orders the two ATF agents to go after the kidnappers and rescue their son. Just as Troy and Amber are about to hike into the Grand Canyon, three Secret Service agents intercept them and beg to go on the hunt. Amber and Troy agree but with the stipulation that it is Troy and Amber's case and they will give the orders.After a quick ride down into the Canyon in a sight-seeing helicopter, the five lawmen start looking for the kidnappers' trail. It takes them a while but they finally find the kidnappers' trail and set off after them. Unluckily, the kidnappers spot them on their trail and have two men set up an ambush while the others move on. But Troy breaks up the ambush and captures the kidnappers and sends them back to the South Rim with one of the Secret Service agents. The three have been gone for an hour when a gigantic explosion sounds from the direction they were headed. A drone-fired Hellfire missile killed the agent and his two prisoners.Troy and Amber realize they must capture the kidnappers before they can escape into the vast Navajo Reservation where the odds are good they will never be caught. Later, they catch up with, and confront the kidnappers but find they have been tricked into following the wrong group of kidnappers. After killing two black ops guys Troy and Amber realize the kidnapping is the tip of a government conspiracy iceberg. Turns out the CIA is involved and want the kidnappers dead and are willing to accept collateral damage that includes Trace Sawyer.From the Grand Canyon they venture to Las Vegas where they are involved in a huge shootout that sends them to South Carolina to talk to a witness, and on to Alexandria, Virginia where they discover the GRU (Russian military intelligence) is also hunting the kidnappers. With a lot of lives on the line, and rogue CIA agents gunning for them, Amber and Troy must outwit and outgun the GRU, the CIA and the kidnappers to save the President's son and bring to justice an escaped mass murderer responsible for the deaths of 8,000 Bosnians.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud.”—Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, 13th, and A Wrinkle in TimeNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VANITY FAIR With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, and a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books. In this remarkable memoir, he tells his full story for the first time. Decade after decade, Dapper Dan discovered creative ways to flourish in a country designed to privilege certain Americans over others. He witnessed, profited from, and despised the rise of two drug epidemics. He invented stunningly bold credit card frauds that took him around the world. He paid neighborhood kids to jog with him in an effort to keep them out of the drug game. And when he turned his attention to fashion, he did so with the energy and curiosity with which he approaches all things: learning how to treat fur himself when no one would sell finished fur coats to a Black man; finding the best dressed hustler in the neighborhood and converting him into a customer; staying open twenty-four hours a day for nine years straight to meet demand; and, finally, emerging as a world-famous designer whose looks went on to define an era, dressing cultural icons including Eric B. and Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, Mike Tyson, Alpo Martinez, LL Cool J, Jam Master Jay, Diddy, Naomi Campbell, and Jay-Z. By turns playful, poignant, thrilling, and inspiring, Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem is a high-stakes coming-of-age story spanning more than seventy years and set against the backdrop of an America where, as in the life of its narrator, the only constant is change.Praise for Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem“Dapper Dan is a true one of a kind, self-made, self-liberated, and the sharpest man you will ever see. He is couture himself.”—Marcus Samuelsson, New York Times bestselling author of Yes, Chef“What James Baldwin is to American literature, Dapper Dan is to American fashion. He is the ultimate success saga, an iconic fashion hero to multiple generations, fusing street with high sartorial elegance. He is pure American style.”—André Leon Talley, Vogue contributing editor and author

When Troy Barclay and Amber Neilson, two ATF agents, accidentally save the President's life during an assassination attempt, he is so impressed with their skills that he asks them to investigate a cunning and deadly killer who has murdered several women who were close to him. While the Secret Service protects the President, Troy and Amber start searching for clues that will help them catch the murderer. But nothing works the way it is planned and Troy saves the President from a second assassination attempt launched by the determined assassin who uses an Abrams tank in his attack. Completely frazzled by the Secret Service's inability to protect him, the President secretly takes Air Force One to a secret location and then orders Troy and Amber to join him and to continue their investigation. With the help of a half-dozen experienced but wacky investigators, Troy and Amber close in on the killer but the bodies keep piling up until they find his main stash of over 100 bodies. Realizing they have stumbled on a murderous monster, Troy and Amber go all in and take big chances to stop the killer. While Troy is in LA to check out a body there, Amber goes on a date with the President--a date that ends in a huge shootout that pits Amber against the assassin--a shootout that Amber wins. The LA body turns out to be alive and the woman who survived the murder attempt was lucky enough to hang on to the murder weapon--a woman's belt. When Troy sees it, he knows he has seen one like it before, but he can't remember where. Back with the investigative team at the President's secret location, Troy learns that he has been invited to dine with the President on a docked aircraft carrier. Turns out Amber and two other women were invited as well. But as Troy boards the aircraft carrier, he sees the three women tied up in chairs on the carrier deck. Troy realizes too late that the trap is for the President but before he can react, the killer raises a pistol and tells Troy goodbye.

When Troy Barclay and Amber Neilson discover that a New York Police Department homicide detective has an impossible murder that could only be the work of the master killer, the Invisible Man, they go to New York City to match wits with the deadly, elusive killer. While working on the Invisible Man case, they learn that the homicide detective’s wife, an NYPD detective, was killed four years earlier in a Bedford/Stuyvesant drug house and the case has never been solved. Troy and Amber come down hard on several drug dealers who witnessed the murder and get a description of the killer. As they track down the Invisible Man, he learns of their investigation and tries to kill them. As they turn up the heat on both investigations, both killers make mistakes and Troy and Amber capitalize on them and close in on the killers. In a marathon gut-wrenching firefight, the two ATF agents shoot it out with the Invisible Man’s mercenaries but a twist of fate brings them face to face with the master killer.The next day, when the NYPD homicide detective comes to work, he finds a hooded man sitting at his desk. A sign on the man’s back says, ‘I killed your wife.” With their work in New York done, Troy and Amber start back to Phoenix but a call from the detective sends them to the Empire State Building.

This is the 3rd book in a series of four books in a miniseries that starts with The Kidnapped Corpse, then Silent Death Down, then The Man With Death In His Eyes and lastly the unnamed book to be completed February 2019. Each book is a stand-alone story but you will enjoy them much more if you read them in order.In ‘The Man With Death In His Eyes’, Book Three in the Titan Duplantier Mystery Series, Titan, aka Titus Dufrain, meets Amber Neilson Barclay who is in New York City to look for her husband, Troy Barclay, who was kidnapped by mercenaries for their long-time nemesis, the Invisible Man.While keeping his heavy caseload of murder investigations active, Titus begins working with Amber to track down the elusive Invisible Man whose hired guns are having an extremely difficult time keeping Troy from escaping.After being shot in Atlantic City, the Invisible Man has retreated to a palatial home near Glen Island on the Long Island Sound. While he recovered from his wounds, he tries to figure out how Amber and the police have been able to track him even though he leaves no clues behind.With his partner, Leo Freeman’s help, Titus rules out several remote abandoned properties as places where the Invisible Man’s mercenaries might be holding Troy.In the meantime, they investigate a mob boss whose incompetent hitmen killed a man but were never able to dispose of the body.In the middle of mob wars, old murders and hitmen killing hitmen, Titus and Leo find the Invisible Man and force him to leave his house and take to the road.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see the future?At first, Chaz Anderson thought the same thing, but he quickly realized that the saying “with great power comes great responsibility” is true. Chaz was living a relaxed life as a high schooler when he discovered these future-seeing powers. With these powers came a responsibility to protect the people of the Dream World, a medieval land he gets pulled into every time he goes to sleep.Can Chaz be the hero the Dream World needs and figure out an epic way to ask his crush to prom? Sounds like a lot to ask from a high schooler . . . Experience a high schoolers epic medieval adventure in the first book of the Dreamchasers Series!

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see the future?At first, Chaz Anderson thought the same thing, but he quickly realized that the saying “with great power comes great responsibility” is true. Chaz was living a relaxed life as a high schooler when he discovered these future-seeing powers. With these powers came a responsibility to protect the people of the Dream World, a medieval land he gets pulled into every time he goes to sleep.Can Chaz be the hero the Dream World needs and figure out an epic way to ask his crush to prom? Sounds like a lot to ask from a high schooler . . . Experience a high schoolers epic medieval adventure in the first book of the Dreamchasers Series!

Visually explore the range of built-in and third-party libraries of Perl and Apache Perl and Apache have been providing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) access to Web sites for 20 years and are constantly evolving to support the ever-changing demands of Internet users. With this book, you will heighten your knowledge and see how to usePerl and Apache to develop dynamic Web sites. Beginning with a clear, step-by-step explanation of how to install Perl and Apache on both Windows and Linux servers, you then move on to configuring each to securely provide CGI Services. CGI developer and author Adam McDaniel shows techniques for effectively developing and maintaining dynamic sites and he shares real-world examples describing MySQL database access, PayPal credit-card transactions, and sample Facebook and Twitter interfaces. Apache and Perl have been providing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) access to Internet Web sites for more than two decades, and both products are constantly evolving to support today's user requirements Shows how to install Perl and Apache on Windows and Linux servers and configure each to securely provide CGI services Details techniques for effectively developing and maintaining dynamic Web sites Addresses MySQL database access and PayPal credit-card transactions, and examines sample Facebook and Twitter interfaces With this book, you’ll benefit from a wealth of techniques and resources that you won’t find anywhere else.

When Troy Barclay and Amber Neilson, two ATF agents, accidentally save the President's life during an assassination attempt, he is so impressed with their skills that he asks them to investigate a cunning and deadly killer who has murdered several women who were close to him. While the Secret Service protects the President, Troy and Amber start searching for clues that will help them catch the murderer. But nothing works the way it is planned and Troy saves the President from a second assassination attempt launched by the determined assassin who uses an Abrams tank in his attack. Completely frazzled by the Secret Service's inability to protect him, the President secretly takes Air Force One to a secret location and then orders Troy and Amber to join him and to continue their investigation. With the help of a half-dozen experienced but wacky investigators, Troy and Amber close in on the killer but the bodies keep piling up until they find his main stash of over 100 bodies. Realizing they have stumbled on a murderous monster, Troy and Amber go all in and take big chances to stop the killer. While Troy is in LA to check out a body there, Amber goes on a date with the President--a date that ends in a huge shootout that pits Amber against the assassin--a shootout that Amber wins. The LA body turns out to be alive and the woman who survived the murder attempt was lucky enough to hang on to the murder weapon--a woman's belt. When Troy sees it, he knows he has seen one like it before, but he can't remember where. Back with the investigative team at the President's secret location, Troy learns that he has been invited to dine with the President on a docked aircraft carrier. Turns out Amber and two other women were invited as well. But as Troy boards the aircraft carrier, he sees the three women tied up in chairs on the carrier deck. Troy realizes too late that the trap is for the President but before he can react, the killer raises a pistol and tells Troy goodbye.

Visually explore the range of built-in and third-party libraries of Perl and Apache Perl and Apache have been providing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) access to Web sites for 20 years and are constantly evolving to support the ever-changing demands of Internet users. With this book, you will heighten your knowledge and see how to usePerl and Apache to develop dynamic Web sites. Beginning with a clear, step-by-step explanation of how to install Perl and Apache on both Windows and Linux servers, you then move on to configuring each to securely provide CGI Services. CGI developer and author Adam McDaniel shows techniques for effectively developing and maintaining dynamic sites and he shares real-world examples describing MySQL database access, PayPal credit-card transactions, and sample Facebook and Twitter interfaces. Apache and Perl have been providing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) access to Internet Web sites for more than two decades, and both products are constantly evolving to support today's user requirements Shows how to install Perl and Apache on Windows and Linux servers and configure each to securely provide CGI services Details techniques for effectively developing and maintaining dynamic Web sites Addresses MySQL database access and PayPal credit-card transactions, and examines sample Facebook and Twitter interfaces With this book, you’ll benefit from a wealth of techniques and resources that you won’t find anywhere else.