The Mannington Globe is a science-fiction novel about a scientist who was killed before her controversial research could be published. She was murdered by the person who funded her project. Her son and husband are determined to finish her work and bring the killer to justice. But because her death was made to look like an accident, no one suspects the killer walks among them as a family friend.

She was a talented anthropologist whose work with a certain type of insect was applied to human behavior. Her thesis was sweeping and provided an explanation for large phenomena such was world wars, but it could also explain the single act of a lone murder. Her research had implications for every person on the planet.

As soon as her husband suspects who the killer is, he, too, has an accident, which leaves only the son to avenge their deaths. While bringing his mother's work to fruition, the son tries to ignore the discreet hints that humanity is being evaluated by an inconspicuous entity that has chosen to contact him based on his mother's research all the while as the killer closes in.