Voices of Hope (The Seafort Saga Book 5)

Voices of Hope is the fifth book in the Seafort Saga. Decades after Nick Seafort defeated the alien invaders known as the fishlike aliens, he has retired as Secretary General of the United Nations. Despite his position, he has been unable to help the transpops—desperate people living in the dangerous lower levels of New York City. When Seafort's son Philip follows a friend into the streets of New York, he becomes immersed in transpop culture, a society that has evolved in the shadows and operates with ruthless efficiency. The transpops are volatile, and a water shortage threatens to ignite conflict, revealing that humans can pose dangers equal to extraterrestrial threats. Years earlier, Seafort had ventured into these same violent streets to find his wife. Now he must return to rescue his son.