Since the Treasury Department includes the Secret Service, which safeguards the President of the United States, control of the entire nation is near at hand. Heinlein envisioned a world were war had taken out sections of the United States in nuclear attacks and the threat of a final blast was still on. and Russia was still going on and the Iron Curtain (The Wall) had not yet come down. And he has just learned that a high official in the Treasury Department is now under control of the aliens. Heinlein wrote The Puppet Masters the world was a very different place. Unfortunately, that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own. 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. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. First ​came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa.
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