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Hellstrom's Hive

Frank Herbert

1974288 pagesabout 4–7 hours
1974
first published
  • 1974Bantam Books · 312 pagesISBN 9780552682763
  • 1982Corgi · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780552120562
  • 1982Bantam Books · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780553144383
  • 2007Tor Books · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780765317728
  • 2007Tantor Media · ENGISBN 9781400155644
  • 2007Tantor Media · ENGISBN 9781400105649
  • 2007Tantor Media · ENGISBN 9781400135646
  • 2011Gollancz · 288 pagesISBN 9780575101081

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: a beehive-like commune of humans who behave like insects and who possess insect powers far outstripping those of mortal men. 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 than even their paranoid government minds could devise : an unconquerable super-weapon that could vaporize whole cities in seconds and could condemn Earth's helpless masses to Hellstrom's twisted version of existence forever.

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