The body lay face down; the back of the jacket heaved as if the chest were rising. I first pulled on glovesagent’s gloves. I could have stirred boiling acid, yet I could feel a coin in the dark and call heads or tailsonce gloved, I started to turn him over and undress him. The back was still heaving; I did not like the look of itunnatural. I placed a palm between the shoulder blades. A man’s back is bone and muscle. This was soft and undulating. It pulsed...from The Puppet Masters At key points throughout North America, an invasion force is taking over communications, government, industryand people’s bodies. And the nation is helpless to stop it because the invaders multiply far faster than they can be destroyed, controlling the mind of every unsuspecting person they encounter... Enter Sam Cavanaugh, a can-do intelligence officer for the United States’ most secret service. Cavanaugh is the only man who can stop the invaders. But to do that he’ll have to be invaded himself!