First San Diego, then the World! Lt. Linsey Simon and her husband, hard-hitting reporter Jack Simon, become embroiled in the terrifying saga of a corrupt pharmaceutical company, an ancient fungal horror kept at bay deep in the Peruvian jungle, and the reckless experiment that has now set the Doom Spore loose in San Diego. Sailors returning home to their families from the sea are not what they seem. As in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and similar classics of the genre, their families are soon also helpless pawns in a take-over game targeting the world. As more and more people become deadly vectors, as all manner and shape of grotesque mushroom pop up all over the city—at bus stops, in museums, perhaps even beside your bed as you sleep—is there any hope of stopping this lethal wave?