Book is a "Shepherd," or preacher. He is acting as a missionary in the outer rim of planets. We know very little about him, other than that he comes from the Southdown Abbey, and that he never married. However, there is another side to Shepherd Book. He knows more about crime than most Preachers do (Making him somewhat of a Father Brown.) He is also given very good treatment by the Alliance, something not normally given, even to "Shepherds." There are many theories as to who Book really is, but most are too spoilerific for me to get into here.
To sum up, Book=enigma.
Yours in Christ,
Thursday
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I personally think he was a high ranking alliance official somehow involved in the Battle of Serenity who decided to become a Shepard to atone for his sins. The only reason I think he was involved in the Battle of Serenity is that it would make for some interesting character devolopment and the writers would be dumb to miss out on such an opportunity, assuming the writers go down the whole ex-alliance officer path.
That's always been my theory, but Joss likes to write obvious possible plot lines in there to trip us up, so who knows.
Yours in Christ,
Thursday
I have another idea that maybe he is related to River in some way, with mind reading abilities of his own, hence his ability to choose the ship River was on before she got on it.
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