Killers of Innocence — John Creasey

When the children arrived at the nursery, they were happy and carefree, like children everywhere. The drowsiness came later, then the fever and the terrible illness. Afterward they were different -- sullen, hostile, bitter.

These were to be the inhabitants of the new world, after the old one had been destroyed. Behind the scheme was a beautiful, ruthless woman, as cunning as a jungle cat. She had found a way to take over the human mind and make puppets out of people.

Her weapon: thousands of brain-washed children under the age of ten…