SUMMARY

Cassie's had it. After the last mission, she realizes she's getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can't do it anymore. So she quits. But that's not the worst that's happened. It seems a human-Controller named Karen followed Cassie after the last run-in with the Yeerks. And she knows Cassie is an Andalite...or human. Either way, if she exposes Cassie, it's all over. No more Cassie. No more Animorphs. No more planet Earth ...

Released: June 1998 Pages: 159 Cover Art by David B. Mattingly

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TRIVIA

ANIBASE: Ever wonder why K.A. felt the need to show us the "bad guys" point of view like she does in this book? Here's what she said: "Sometimes the bad guys of the world come at you guns blazing. Sometimes they come at you wearing a mask, hiding their intentions, deceiving and manipulating, turning one person against another without giving you a fair chance to fight back. Life would be easier all around if evil people would simply announce that they are evil so we could all reject them. But in many cases evil creeps in, hiding behind politics, philosophy, patriotism, law, religion, science, art. Sometimes evil can be very plausible, logical. That's why I've gradually fleshed out the history of the Yeerks. I hope that readers will, on occasion, find themselves thinking, 'You know what, the Yeerks are making sense. They kind of have a point.' It's easy to figure out right and wrong when it's clear as black and white." But the challenge in our lives is "to be able to figure out right and wrong even when the bad guys 'kind of have a point'." This book officially sheds the image of the Yeerks as one-sided ruthless and evil beings, and marks the beginnings of the Yeerk Peace Movement, which is later developed with the return of Aftran in Animorphs #29: The Sickness. The naturally-occured morphing timer-reset exception is the second morphing glitch that is shown in the series. The first one being shown in #12: The Reaction, where it is revealed that an animal cannot be acquired if you are allergic to it. These exceptions never occur, nor are exploited in any way, in the series ever again. This book is also narrated, at least for one chapter, by Jake when Cassie can't. KASU: By the end of the book, Cassie and Aftran have made a small peace, where Aftran promises to go back to the Yeerk Pool and never take another host again. However, this does not explain what happens to Karen, or even if she gets away. Once a Yeerk is released from the host body, the body is caged by the Hork-Bajirs at the infestation pier. Also, if by some chance that Karen did end up escaping, she would have never made it past the Gleet Biofilters, which are located at every entrance of the Yeerk Pool (as established in #17: The Underground). Karen would have eventually gained another Yeerk when it would have been assumed that it was time for Aftran to re-enter her again. The new Yeerk in Karen's body would immediately know of Cassie and the fact that she's the "Andalite Bandit" that the Yeerks were looking for.

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