Earth unleashes giant parasitoid wasps, a holistic natural response to deforestation and destructive human expansion across the globe. The wasps are potent enough to immobilize humans and bury them alive with their hungry hatching eggs, like smaller wasps do to pest species such as caterpillars, cockroaches, and spiders.
Teamed with an FBI agent, parasitologist, and a teen hacker, Dr. Beth Halfers, a California entomologist, must stop the wasps’ spread. But it’s not easy, because the invasive wasp larvae can also take over human nervous systems and brains from the inside out, making it difficult for Beth to trust anyone.
Wasp Invasion… and you thought murder hornets were bad
Dean Lombardo is the author of the western novel, "The Barco Clan," the science fiction thriller "Byproduct," as well as the scifi-horror novel "Vespa," the middle-grade lit novel "Donkey Sense," and other novels. A native of Norwalk, Connecticut, he lives in northern Virginia with his family, two dogs and a cat.