Author: Lynn Mason
Publisher: Channel 4 Books
Release Date: January 17, 2003
ISBN: 9780752215372
Related Project: Alias
Recruited opens the Alias prequel line, which makes it a useful anchor point for the AbramsFans books section. Before the later APO novels expanded the franchise in one direction, the prequel books looked backward and explored Sydney Bristow before a lot of the larger mythology fully unfolded on television.
That gives this book a different kind of value than the later tie-ins. It is part of the broader effort to turn Alias into a full publishing lane, not just a hit series with a couple of throwaway paperbacks on the side.
