Description
Life under the thumb of the Spark Lords—the League's Earthly representatives—is dull but comfortable for Philemon Abu Dhubhai and the other teachers at a third-rate private school for second-rate rich kids. But all that changes when a female student is found murdered by an unknown alien organism, and her boyfriend, the prime suspect, goes missing. Suddenly an unofficial homicide investigation has snared Philemon and five other "misfits"—plus one of the planet's most powerful criminals, the mother of the murdered girl—trapping them all in a web of terrifying conspiracy that could involve the Spark Lords ... and even the League of Peoples itself. For all is perilously not what it seems, on Earth and in the heavens. But then again, neither are Phil and his compatriots....
About the authors
Other titles by James Alan Gardner
Shapers of Worlds Volume II
Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers
They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded
All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
A Novel
Compostela (Tesseracts 20)
Strangers Among Us
Tales of Underdogs and Outcasts
Hunted
Radiant
Commitment Hour
Ascending
Gravity Wells
Speculative Fiction Stories
