A black magician screaming curses of hatred... A fiery object hurtling from the sky... A patch of earth where no blade of grass will grow... Centuries have passed since that terrible night of reckoning, but still the dark shadow hangs over a Scottish valley. Bob Coyle believes that his home town is menaced by a new centre for disposing of nuclear waste—a lethally dangerous project he calls 'Holocaust'. Yet his efforts to alert the people fall upon deaf—or angry—ears. For them the centre means new-found prosperity. But a series of strange deaths and brutal killings at last starts to bring home the danger... and if Coyle's worst fears are realised, countless millions will die in agony. Then the terrible curse of Balzur will be fulfilled.