It came plummeting out of the sky--a soundless, streaking, purple glow,
moving faster and faster until it ripped at the trees, crashed through
them and struck sickeningly against a hill. Momentarily it flared
brightly, then went out.
It was not long after that the murders began--strange, inexplicable
deaths, all the victims found with their heads crushed as if their
skulls had exploded outward.
The trail of victims lead from Arkansas to Tennessee, to Kentucky,
Illinois and Michigan--sixteen unrelated people who had only one thing
in common: All of their brains were withered, as if sucked dry of their
contents....
And somewhere wandered an evil stranger from another planet, his
personality expanding, his brain power increasing, preparing for the
inevitable encounter that could make him master of the world!