Publisher's Synopsis
In a parable for these times, a journalist and a reclusive professor have ten days to find an alien named Basil or the world will be destroyed. A hand-held device offers clues, but only the professor can read it, and the journalist doubts the man's sanity. Along the way, they must kidnap a Reality TV star, seek help from a female ex-convict with a mysterious past, and rely on a dysfunction family of cloned geniuses, while staying one step ahead of journalists from competing networks, gangsters, and soldiers.
