It seems the German High Command have developed a master weapon guaranteed to win them the war. But who exactly are the Nazi leadership? Are they truly of this earth? There’s something about their eyes that sends shivers down the spine of the average earthling and commands absolute devotion from others. Could indigenous inhabitants of our planet really exercise such a profound level of control over other members of the human race?

Seventy-five years later, Detective Superintendent Greyshott of Horsham C.I.D. witnesses the arrival of a large meteor one dark and stormy night over the South Downs and finds himself unintentionally caught up in the activities of a secret Earth Defence Organization.

Are the Nazis trying again but this time with a disease of greater potency?

70 miles to the north west there are strange things afoot on Salisbury Plain. Has the British Army been infiltrated by alien beings?

……….and who is the battered and bruised teenager curled up in the boot of Greyshott’s car? Has he been sent to help or hinder the Human Race’s survival?