"Napalm eats through skin with an intense flame that is almost impossible to extinguish. In th3e eyes, it instantly blinds and eats its way to the brain. On the cheek, it spreads in a white-hot pool of liquid fire, burning skin and muscle and bone in a silent horror. Silent, that is, except for the inhuman screams of the victims."

John Page knew about Napalm. He had dropped it on many Vietnam villages while he was a bomber pilot for the U.S. Airforce. But then he had seen the results and vowed never again to become involved in such mass human killing.

But now, as flying instructor for a new experimental university, he was soon entangled with a liquid horror whose consequences were infinitely worse than those of Napalm. They called it SCORCH.