BEWARE: THE PATRIOTS"Serpies" - snakelike invaders - considered Earthmen fit only as subjects for weird scientific experiments. Noah, with Jane at his side, organised an underground resistance league. They travelled the length and breadth of America, fighting off bands of marauders. In California, the found the Patriots - self-styled interpreters and dangerous defenders of the American Way - worse, even, than the Serpies. Sometimes Noah lost hope of a return to sanity.