The Sinister Invasion

Ross Birrel is an ordinary electrical engineer whose quiet life is shattered when a gray government agent named Paley spirits him out of New York and into a hidden intelligence facility. There, legendary OSS operative John Connor reveals the shocking reason Birrel was chosen: he has "the right face" for a mission tied to a dead intruder found near a guarded atomic site. The body is not human, but an alien spy, and the recovered evidence suggests Earth is already under covert surveillance from another world. Forced to impersonate the dead man, Birrel is taught enough of the alien language to bait the enemy into contact. Instead, he is swept into a larger conflict involving Kara, a mysterious offworld woman, and Holmer, her companion, who rescue him from prison and drag him north through a maze of false identities and competing alien agendas. But the truth is even more dangerous than anyone knows: Vannevan, a ruthless rival leader, is hunting them, and Birrel's disguise is exposed, revealing that he is not a man of Ruun at all, but an Earthman. Caught between secret agencies, alien factions, and a looming interplanetary war, Birrel must survive a deception that has already gone far beyond espionage. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.