Monk Kokkalis

**Monk Kokkalis** is a soldier who serves in Sigma Force.

## Early Life

The man carried other physical attributes from his former military life: puckered bullet wound scars, three of them, shoulder, upper leg, and chest. He had been the only one of his team to survive an ambush in Afghanistan. During his recovery Stateside, Sigma had recruited him because of his genius-level IQ and retrained him through a doctoral program in forensic medicine.

## Career

### *Map of Bones*

He accompanied Kat Bryant and Grayson Pierce to solve the mystery of the attack on a cathedral in Cologne.
They travel to Alexandria, and several other places. He was later captured due to some skiving plot by the Dragon Court. As punishment and to extract information from Rachel Verona, he had his hand chopped off. He was sent to a hospital, where Cardinal Spera comes to him.

He joins the rest in Avignon, serving as a minor character since then.

After the mission, he returns to the States, getting a prosthetic for the missing hand. He ends up dating Kat Bryant.

### *Black Order*

He is at his home with Kat Bryant when she tells him that she is pregnant.
He accompanies Gray to Germany and the Wewelsburg castle. There, he was knocked unconscious when the curator of the museum locks them in a room and fills it with gas. He is taken to South Africa, where he is interrogated for information by the Waalenberg family. He refuses, escaping by using his electronic hand as an explosive in a distraction, where he links up with the Sigma Force leading to participation in an attack on the mansion, where the Waalenberg estate is engaged by a massive act of revenge by the Zulu nation.

### *Judas Strain*

In 2007, he travels with Lisa Cummings to Christmas Island  in Indonesia.

There, he meets with Richard Graff, a WHO researcher from the University of Queensland, to analyze the mass die-off of animals near the island.
He stayed out of the view of the Guild members who boarded the Mistress of the Seas. He ha. During a party, he managed to give a purse to Lisa with a radio and pistol, asking her to join him and another to escape at 2100.

They reach the island of Pusat where the get a team of cannibals to fight.
He was supposedly witnessed to have fallen off the cruise ship, having not been rescued.

At the end of the book, his has had supposedly tapped through a covering, so that it was able to be detected tapping out SOS.

## Personality

Monk had an uncanny talent to read people and to outfox any guard. This made him really good at basketball. The bushy brows were the only hair on his shaved head. He preferred to stick to the look drilled into him by the Green Berets.

His personal film was the 1965 film ‘’The Sound of Music’’. JDS (epilogue)

## Hand

Due to the events of the Black Order, he had a mechanical hand replace his natural ones. The prosthetic was a marvel of DARPA engineering, incorporating direct peripheral nerve control through its titanium wrist contact points. It also was bioengineered with advanced mechanics and actuators, allowing sensory feedback and surgically precise movements. Monk’s stumped end of his wrist was encased in a polysynthetic cuff, surgically attached to the end of his wrist and wired into nerve bundles and muscle tendons. In actuality, it was the other half of his prosthesis. The hand might be the brawn, but the wrist cuff was definitely the brain.