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Written by Robert A. Heinlein - Audio book performed by Lloyd James - Unabridged Fiction - 9 CASSETTES - 12 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (December 1998)

"The body lay face down; the back of the jacket heaved as if the chest were rising. I first pulled on gloves-agent's gloves. I could have stirred boiling acid, yet I could feel a coin in the dark and call heads or tails-once gloved, I started to turn him over and undress him.

The back was still heaving; I did not like the look of it-unnatural. 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, industry-and 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!

About the Author: Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he was retired, disabled, in 1934. He studied mathematics and physics at the graduate school of the University of California and owned a silver mine before beginning to write science fiction in 1939. In 1947 his first book of fiction, Rocket Ship Galileo was published. His novels include Double Star (1956), Starship Troopers (1959), Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), all winners of the Hugo Award. Heinlein was guest commentator for the Apollo-11 first lunar landing. In 1975 he received the Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. Mr. Heinlein died in 1988.