Lords of the Earth

Crop-duster Winston Hoag is killed by a camera weapon installed for Waldron Perriweather III, who publicly fronts the Species Liberation Alliance while secretly cultivating insects. Remo destroys stolen CURE files and kills the two computer businessmen who took them; Chiun kills a salesman who erased his accounting work. Smith sends them to protect Dr. Ravits and the IHAEO lab. Ravits is murdered in a sealed lab, and an earlier scene shows an unnamed sitting U.S. President ordering the FBI replaced with CURE; a different deceased President is said to have selected Smith. Nathan and Gloria Muswasser attempt a TNT bombing, but the defective device is found and removed.

In Uwenda, Ravits’s pheromone draws Ung beetles into a fatal swarm, while delegates are later killed by unusually strong chimpanzees. Perriweather and the Muswassers are behind a separate biological agent. Remo finds and defuses a stolen portable nuclear device. Perriweather and Morley have bred red-wing flies whose bite changes animal and human strength and behavior. The Muswassers transform and are killed by Remo and Chiun; Morley’s fate remains uncertain. Barry Schweid studies the evidence and temporarily uses the breathing method to gain exceptional strength. The fly delivered to Remo and Chiun is dead. In Uwenda a fly transforms Amabasa Ndo; he kills his brother, the General for Life, a soldier and Barry before Chiun kills him.

A later fly bites Remo, who resists the loss of control and kills Perriweather in a jeep crash. The escaped flies die in ordinary air. One week later Smith confirms the explanation, Dara leaves without learning Remo survived, and Smith mourns Barry.