The time: The 1970's, Police State, U.S.A. The all-powerful secret government agency wanted Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40. But it also knew that Hellstrom was dangerous. Any move to invesigate his hidden fram must be very carefully made.
A team of operatives was sent to invade a world of insect-humans more fearful than even the agency's chief suspected. A world where specially-bred scientisttd with huge heads and stunted legs developed weapons that hummed with deadly insect venom...chemically neutered workers with a sting that could poison the world...hidden tunnels immune to atomic fission...hormones for endless hyped-up sex orgies...and the vats in which everyone finally ended to nourish future generations of human insects.

David L. Wolper's award-winning flim, The Hellstrom Chronicle, inspired this chilling novel of a U.S. superagency designed to control our lives, and underground forces prepared to take over the world.