A gripping sci-fi novel set in a remote community in Nevada where enormous machines descend upon the inhabitants, unannounced, uninvited, and for no apparent reason. All attempts to find out the purpose of this incomprehensible invasion are met with silence, indifference, and finally careless malevolence. Against these faceless and unfeeling Chines, as the children call the prodigious machines, the people of deeth struggle valiantly, but unsuccessfully, discovering at last that there is more at stake than they could ever have imagined!--Amazon