This was a creepy, crawly, crazy book!

What do you get when you mix toxic chemicals with insects? Mutants on steroids that grow from an inch to twelve inches! Not only do they get big, but they are also cannibalistic meaning they are very hungry.

Lapeer Parish, Louisiana with a population of a few thousand are enjoying the quiet life, until the mutants show up. When a farmer's herd of cattle end up dead and all that is left of them are bones is when the mystery surrounds the community. Then people start disappearing, but just a few at a time, so nothing really to worry about as excuses are made as to where the people have gone.

When more people start vanishing, that is when Sheriff Vic Ransonet steps in and tries to make sense of what happened. Not only people, but pets, farm animals, lush crops, etc. are at the mercy of these mutants. The sheriff along with his deputies go to investigate the farms to find the people, but when they get out to the farms, all they find are bones of what use to be the citizens.

Night is the worse for the mutants as that is when they come out in full force, but we are not talking about hundreds of mutants, we are talking about millions of them and they love to eat. The only way to know that they are in the vicinity is by the "clicking" noise of their jaws.

The crap hits the fan though when the mutants bite some of the people as not all of the them die as when the toxin hits their system, they are driven to madness which makes them almost like zombies. It is everything that Sheriff Ransonet can do to keep his deputies alive along with people that have not come in contact with the mutants. Do they make it out alive? Are the mutants able to be killed? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book.

This was one scary insect ride as it shows what happens when toxic chemicals mix with our ecological system and things go haywire with any kind of living organisms. Giving this book four stars.
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It starts with a little spill. Just some toxic junk. No big deal.

Until that stuff changes something. Creates something new and deadly.

If you hear the clicking, it’s already too late.

Another scary good story from this author with more creatures. I can’t tell you what they are. I can tell you they appear from out of nowhere, strip a body down to the bare bones in the time it takes to say, Oh sh#t!, and vanish just as quickly.

No place is safe. As the town is slowly cut off from the rest of the world, the reports of missing animals and people rises and more dessicated bodies are discovered.

Once again, this author gave me horror the way I like it. Creatures, a desperate struggle to survive, and no guarantees that your favorite characters will still be standing at the end. ( )

I read this book a number of times as a teen.

Fun book, kind of horrible. Guilty pleasure. ( )