In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.

Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

Did you know Johnny thinks he's Pittacus resurrected?

I'll come back to you," I say, "If it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you.

She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.

My iPod rumbles again. It's not actually an iPod. It doesn't play any music and the earbuds are just for show. It's a gadget that Sandor put together in his lab. It's my Mogadorian detector. I call it my iMog.