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....