![]() ![]() Sam Cavanaugh was one of the agents who discovered the truth. And most of Iowa is already under their control. ![]() What the slugs want, no matter what, the human will do. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery: an invasion is underway by slug-like aliens who can touch a human and completely control his or her mind. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. Case closed.Įxcept that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. Product DescriptionFirst came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. This edition contains material cut from the original published version, because the book was deemed to be too long and controversial for the market in 1951. In 1990, two years after Heinlein's death, an expanded version was published with the consent of his widow, Virginia Heinlein. “NOTE ON THE TEXT: Heinlein's original version of the novel was 96,000 words, which was cut to about 60,000 words for both the 1951 book version and the serialization in Galaxy Science Fiction. ![]()
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