A WORLD THREATENED BY INSECTS

In Hellstroms Hive, winner of the 1978 Prix Apollo, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology has never been more evident. 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. Hellstroms 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.