From the back cover: If aliens delivered a message announcing when and where they were going to land, would YOU believe it?

The sleepy northern town of Grapplewick might not seem the obvious choice for Earth's first official contact with beings from another planet - and when a mysterious visitor demonstrates his amazing alien powers and announces the imminent arrival of the InterGalactic Peacekeeping Force to rid the world of nuclear weapons, the local dignitaries are astounded. Can this visitor really be from the planet Androm? Are aliens about to land on Earth? And why Grapplewick?

As rumours fly and the hysteria mounts, the people of Grapplewick brace themselves for the moment of truth...