At a time in the future...Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world ... and kill him. This is the future of  a world overpopulated by the billions, where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega-computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs and mundane uses of genetic engineering are the norm.