Encounter

<p>The spaceship 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The trail of victims led from Arkansas to Tennessee to Kentucky Illinois and Michigan -- sixteen unrelated people who had only one thing in common: All of their brains had withered as if sucked dry of their contents...</p><p>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!</p>