Rise of the Fifth Column — Steve Lang

An In the Company of Wolves adventure… When Cody Bishop's family is killed to protect a dark government secret he and his uncle Bill, a former employee of the Deep Space Exploration Consortium will have to escape planet Earth to find help. Cody, Bill, and Jenny, (the girl next door) narrowly escape death at the hands of DSEC Assassins. They are rescued just in time by a human ET named Joc and enlist the help of a team of intergalactic pirates led by a beautiful, and powerful space princess named Amon. She and her crew Gage, a cowboy with roguish good looks and pilot of the spacecraft the Rotten Mouse, and Slim McGee, a six-foot-tall gecko reptilian will aid the three refugees from Earth. Their mission is to try and take down a DSEC space station, and stop a cult from summoning an ancient evil force that could destroy Earth, and allow the DSEC to escape and spread their poison across the galaxy. Can they stop the insidious plot before it's too late, or will Cody and his team succumb to malevolent forces in Rise of the Fifth Column: Bad Guys, Bullets, and Spaceships?