America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses--it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even "their" paranoid government minds could devise. First published in "Galaxy" magazine in 1973 as "Project 40, " Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.