Publisher's Synopsis
Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac. Now Bell, of the secret "Trade," plunges into South America after The Master, the mighty, unknown octopus of power who attempts to control civilization by using a madness-inducing drug. Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer who wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. Murder Madness was Leinster's first book.