In a top-secret research facility, a team of scientists receive an unexpected message from the depths of space.
At first, the blizzard of sub-nuclear particles seemed random. But soon a pattern emerges that could only have come from an alien...
When a plague ship sails into Deephaven harbour in the middle of the night, the harbourmaster sends out the first people he can find who who might be stupid enough and greedy enough to go and find out what's aboard.
Set some years before the...