No one expected to see the long-lost Jupiter probe Pericles again. But now it has made a sudden and shocking return—landing at Kennedy International Airport! The result is the biggest air disaster in history. But that's only the beginning of the devastation the Pericles has brought back to Earth...
Dr. Sam Bertolli is on the scene when the pilot emerges from the wreckage, hideously disfigured and close to death. From that moment, Bertolli finds himself on the front lines of an alien plague that could be the end of humanity . . .
Harry Harrison is the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF.