Description

Living underneath the thumb of the Spark Lords -- the League's Earthly representatives -- is dull but comfortable for Philemon Abu Dhubhai and another teachers at a third-rate private-school for second-rate wealthy children. But all that changes whenever a female student is located killed by an unidentified alien patient, and her sweetheart, the primary suspect, goes missing. Instantly an unofficial murder analysis has snared Philemon and five other "misfits" -- plus-one of the earth's most effective thieves, mom of the slain woman -- capturing all of them in a net of frightening conspiracy that may include the Interest Lords, and also the Category of Individuals itself. For several is perilously not what it appears, on The Planet and in the heavens.