Fire Pattern

When Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist on the Whiteford Examiner, is asked to investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first reation is to ridicule the idea - but he is not able to back out of doing the story. To his own surprise, he becomes fascinated by the phenomenon of people who burn up for no obvious reason. It is a fascination which will make 1996 the most unbelievable year of his life. Science reporter Rayner Jerome's investigation into the terrifying phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion leads him to an alien stronghold on Mercury and into the midst of an extraterrestrial plot to invade Earth