Cade Foster wakes ups in a dirty alley and soon discovers strange posters that advertise Human-Gua cooperation. It seems like the invasion already happened and Cade missed it. Similiar to V the Gua present themselves as saviours of mankind, a duplicate of Cade even advertises for them. Cade soon starts to convince people about the evil of the Guas by showing them secret execution of humans for minor offences.
However, as could probably be expected, the whole scenario is a mind trick. Cain, the replacement personality in Joshua's husk, set up a false meeting and trapped Cade. The goal is to get the Nostradamus' Book.