Synopses & Reviews
William Boone. When the Taelons came to Earth, he was tapped to be the human who would work most closely with Da'an, the mysteriously powerful and enigmatic leader who speaks for the alien Companions.
Boone became many things: confidant, bodyguard, interpreter...and undercover agent for the human Resistance. But little has been told of Boone's past, of the events that prepared him for this perilous assignment.
Now it is revealed: from his duty overseas during the S/I War to his life in the United States, from the arrival of aliens on Earth to his first encounter with the mysterious Augur, here for the first time is the story behind mankind's first double agent in the underground war between human and alien--and the Resistance's first martyr.
Synopsis
Cecilia Roman -- Lia to her friends -- is a simple fourth grade school teacher with a mild distrust of the Taelons. When a group of them suddenly show up at her school and interview her, her curiosity is piqued. Later, when she's contacted by a former student -- now a member of a splinter group of the Resistance -- her world is turned upside down.
The splinter group has chosen Lia to assassinate Zo'or. Stunned, she leaves the group's compound and is picked up by Augur, the only man who can protect her.
With the Taelons gunning for the would-be assassin, and the splinter group aiming to wipe out a liability, it's up to Augur to keep his favorite teacher alive long enough to get her in the clear -- something that will take all of his cunning and skill, and may just cripple the Resistance in the doing . . .