With Mission Earth, L. Ron Hubbard created an unsurpassed masterpiece of satire, social commentary and rousing intergalactic adventure--full of biting insights about the condition of this planet, its people and the institutions that make it the way it is. Mission Earth, an unheard-of 1.2-million word novel in ten volumes, is a monumental achievement by any literary standard. Mission Earth has an entire galaxy for its backdrop, though the main action occurs on Earth and the planet Voltar. The Volt..arian Grand Council has become convinced that it must send a mission to prevent Earth from destroying itself--thus allowing the Voltar Confederacy to proceed on its long-standing invasion plan and timetable to conquer a planet they regard as an important future way-stop on the main invasion route toward the center of the galaxy. The mission is assigned to a clandestine agent, Fleet Combat Engineer Jettero Heller. Soon after arriving on Earth, he heads to New York City where he is determined to get to the bottom of what is causing Earth to self-destruct, unaware that his every move is being tracked and that powerful forces on Voltar want his mission to fail.