The Fire Ants

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Overview:

Title: The Fire Ants
Author: Saul Wernick
Year: 1978
ISBN-10: 0441238335
Publisher: Charter
Price: $1.95
Pages: 310
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Fire Ants
Notes: Date not stated, only the copyright of the original year of publication (1976). Date for this record from Amazon.com.
Several sources give the publisher as Ace, but Charter was an imprint of Ace Books.