Can incoming metals from outer space bring with them some form of contamination that can kill mankind? Are rockets safe from picking up invading germs? The V2 rocket had been lost in the midst of its own desolation for nearly thirty years when a piece of its metal came into the hands of the only occupier of the bomb site. Then, suddenly, the metal began to come alive, to writhe, to scream, to terrify the holder and the man who had come to find out why this whole deserted place had somehow gathered to itself the mark of Cain ...