Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball
cards won.t sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness
of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of
the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells
therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching
at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods
with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years
as the planet.s first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating
bacterium for use in bio-warfare in uncovered, mayhem ensues..

.Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to Earth, crash-
landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to
reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing
days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its
breaking point, economically and culturally . a dystopia of lowlife, emigration
from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives..

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