Man's on the moon, all's wrong with the world. A senseless war, waged with nuclear and bacteriological weapons, is engulfing the Earth. In a desperate attempt to boost the inventive powers of their armaments researchers, the US Army experiments on a group of political prisoners. In an impregnable underground redoubt, they are infected with mutated bacteria that will raise their brainpower to genius level—and kill them within months.
But the victims of this satanic experiment have a plan of revolt—a strange, terrifying plan. From the journal of Louis Sacchetti, poet and inmate of this man-made hell, emerges a gripping story of rebellion and horror...