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1y Cold War in a Country Garden London : Jonathan Cape , 1971 Z980104 1971 single work novel science fiction
'The garden was seven miles long. A puddle was a lake... a shower of rain a flood. Flowers were giant trees. Ants, centipedes, wasps were deadly predators.
'Matthew Dilke and his platoon were less than a quarter of an inch high, pioneers in a daring experiment to solve the problem that could destroy humanity.
'Then came the summons - and Dilke was sent on a mission... to the heart of Eastern Europe.'
Source: Goodreads.
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2y Killer Pine London : Jonathan Cape , 1973 Z980117 1973 single work novel science fiction
'High in the Rockies a mysterious disease breaks out threatening the world's forests.
'Matthew Dilke and his miniaturized agents - including the delectable Hyacinth - are sent to investigate. And in the branches of a soaring pine they find their enemy - and face the awesome power of the warrior ants he controls.'
Source: Goodreads.
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3y Fratricide is a Gas London : Jonathan Cape , 1975 Z980130 1975 single work novel science fiction
'Dilke has been miniaturized, first man in a daring experiment to solve Earth's hideous overcrowding. He was just a quarter of an inch high and there was no going back.
'Now Dilke, a microagent for British Intelligence, was on a mission to South America tracking down the source of a horrifying poison gas.
'And in the mammoth jungle Dilke was hunted... by mammoth-fanged wolf-spiders and the ferocious praying mantis.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.