‘A globe-hopping, significantly creepy go through.’ -Publishers Weekly

First, there is the dark swarm that swallowed a guy whole, the suspicious seismic irregularities in India that confounded researchers, the nuclear bomb China dropped alone territory without the explanation. After that, scientist Melanie Guyer’s laboratory received a bundle containing a incomprehensible egg sac; small did Dr. Guyer know that, almost overnight, Earth would be consumed by previously dormant spiders that abruptly wanted out.

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Now, tens of thousands of people around the world are useless. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysterious flesh-eating spiders are marching through LA, Oslo, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and countless various other cities. According to Dr. Guyer, the turmoil may soon be over.

However in Japan, a giant, glowing egg sac provides shocking preview of what is to come, even while survivors in LA stress and break the quarantine zone. Out in the desert, survivalists Gordo and Shotgun want to invent a tool to fight, but it could be too late, because President Stephanie Pilgrim continues to be compelled to enact the program of final resort.

America, you are on your own.