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  1. Foreword
  2. CONTENTS
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  32. CHAPTER THIRTY
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. Excerpt from I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Last Days of Lorien
  41. CHAPTER ONE
  42. CHAPTER TWO
  43. Excerpt from I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Search for Sam
  44. CHAPTER ONE
  45. CHAPTER TWO
  46. Excerpt from I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Forgotten Ones
  47. CHAPTER ONE
  48. CHAPTER TWO
  49. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  50. BACK ADS
  51. Also by Pittacus Lore
  52. CREDITS
  53. COPYRIGHT
  54. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

“I’m listening.”

Adam extends his hand to me. “I know where they live.”

Something recoils inside of me at the sight of that pale hand waiting for mine. But if what I saw in that vision was true—if Five is working for the Mogadorians—then why shouldn’t we have one of them working with us? I take Adam’s hand, squeezing hard. He doesn’t cringe, only looks me right in the eye.

“All right, Adam,” I say. “You’re gonna help me win this war.”

Excerpt from I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Last Days of Lorien

Excerpt from I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Last Days of Lorien

EXPERIENCE THE BATTLE THAT BEGAN THE WAR!

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CHAPTER ONE

THIS IS LORIEN. IT’S “PERFECT” HERE. THAT’S what they say, at least.

Maybe they’re right. Over the years, Lorien’s Office for Interplanetary Exploration has sent recon missions to pretty much every inhabitable planet out there, and they all sound terrible.

Take this place called Earth: it’s polluted, overcrowded, too hot and getting hotter every day. The way the scouts tell it, everyone there is miserable. The earthlings all spend a lot of time trying to kill each other over nothing; they spend the rest of their time trying not to get killed.

Scan through one of their history books—we’ve got a bunch of them available in the Great Lorien Information Depository—and you’ll see it’s all just one pointless war after another. It’s like, Earthlings, you idiots, get it together!

The thing is, other than Lorien, Earth’s about the best place there is out there. I’m not even going to bother mentioning Mogadore. Talk about a dump.

Here on Lorien there’s no war. Ever. The weather’s always perfect, and there’s enough variation in ecosystems that you can find a place with whatever your own version of perfect weather is. Most of the place is pristine forests, perfect beaches, mountains with views you wouldn’t believe. Even in the few cities we’ve got, there’s plenty of space to move around and no crime at all.

People don’t even argue all that much.

What is there to argue about? The place is perfect, so of course everyone’s happy. Like, always. You walk down the street in Capital City and you see everyone smiling like a bunch of happy zombies.

But there’s no such thing as perfect, is there? And even if there is, then I have to say: “perfect” is pretty boring.

I hate boring. I always do my best to find the imperfections. That’s where the fun usually is.

Although, come to think of it, as far as a lot of people are concerned—my parents chief among them—I’m the biggest imperfection of all.

It’s positively un-Loric.