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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.