Synopsis: From the first page of the Ace Double: "Dolls of doom - The human race was rushing toward the brink of destruction, as huge global forces massed to strike at each other all the awesome power of modern war weapons. War threats screamed from headlines, radio and television... and in a small, seemingly unimportant city in Africa, a group of men worked on a discovery and a plan that was to affect Earth's entire future. They had developed a new type of creature - androids who were only the size of dolls and apparently limited in intelligence. Yet they seemed to have a strange effect on the personalities of humans. So far, there were only a few score of the androids - but in time they were fated to inherit the Earth.