As you might expect, the America is not the only nation whose security service has secret departments dedicated to doing the jobs that governments cannot admit to. No matter where you are in the world there is always a need for spies such as Sydney Bristow to do the dirty work. Equally there is also a number of terrorist organisations that run a similar group of spies - Maya Rao is just such an agent. While working for Zero Defense she has often come up against Sydney and the two women consider each other their main opponents – two sides of the same coin.

So when Maya Rao comes to the APO claiming to be willing to switch sides in order to save the life of her fiancé Sydney is understandably suspicious. Even Maya's frequent floods of tears fail to fully convince Sydney that she is telling the truth. The story Maya tells is that she and her fiancé Terry were employed by a terrorist group, the Baden Liga, to steal the UCAV an experimental unmanned combat air vehicle from the Americans. When the handover meeting with the Baden Liga went wrong Maya had gone into hiding and her fiancé had vanished. Maya offers to help Sydney recover the stolen UCAV providing the other agent help her find the whereabouts of her fiancé.

What follows is a series of encounters with various terrorists, voodoo practitioners and sadistic killers as the two women work together to find Terry and return the UCAV. But will Maya prove to be telling the truth or is there a more sinister reason behind the tears?

Two of a Kind? is another book in the Alias series and follows more adventures of Sydney Bristow as she works with an agent from a terrorist organisation to recover a stolen plane and rescue a computer genius who has gone into hiding. As she works closely with the other spy, Sydney is forced to consider that despite working on opposite sides of the law she is really no different to Maya. She goes through a considerable amount of soul-searching as she tries to rationalise her role within the government against similar actions carried out by terrorists – are they really any different?

Whenever I read a TV tie-in novel the last thing I really want to get is an episode in book form. A novel should push the boundaries and give you more than could ever be filmed for TV. With Two if a Kind? this is just what you get. The disguises and voodoo sections are more than you could ever expect from a one hour TV programme and the storyline is much more complex. Good stuff!

Synopsis
Taking orders again from Arvin Sloane is enough for agent Sydney Bristow's life to feel turned upside down. But when an old adversary resurfaces and begs specifically for her help, Sydney is forced to confront ever-changing alliances -- and the disturbing question of just how much she and her former enemy have in common.

United by an urgent goal but for separate reasons, an inconceivable team is forged. From the luxury hotels of downtown Singapore to the frenetic streets of New Orleans's French Quarter, Sydney finds herself with little time to decide if she's been given the chance to amend ancient history or if she's being lethally played.