Clive and the others continue to plan their escape from the military controlled Lower Crowchurch, while Susan comes face-to-face with an old...friend?

Lower Crowchurch is a small English community enjoying the peace of the 1930s, but when the town becomes the victim of an alien invasion, the residents' lives a

"Originally published in single magazine form as Wild's End: The enemy within no. 1-6."--Copyright page.

While the other survivors struggle in the woods against the aliens, Peter and Susan desperately try to alert the public in time.

The group is scattered in the woods of Lower Crowchurch as the alien threat comes roaring back to life.