Rev Smalley has misgivings about his first real case when he finds his clients are clickers-Mantodeans that look remarkably like pray mantises.Someone has bugnapped the Queen-affectionately referred to as Mom for short-and that someone is none other than Magnus Blackheart, Rev's former boss, and evil nemesis.Without Mom, all of the Mantodeans will die before a new queen can take her place. That is if the Mantodeans don't decide to swarm first, engulfing whole sectors of space on their collecting spree to distill enough Royal Jelly, manufacturing another queen.Magnus has plans of his own to become the next living god of the vast reaches of Mantodean space, only if he can unravel the mystery of the Royal Jelly. Just one man stands in his way, Rev Smalley, Galactic P.I.