H. B. Fyfe 4 hr 14 min read

A secret Earth agency runs rescue operations across the galaxy, extracting operatives from impossible situations on a hundred hostile worlds.

H. B. Fyfe's 1962 novel follows the crisis-desk operatives of D-99 as they coordinate daring rescues from behind their consoles, spanning the perils of many planets. Brisk, inventive golden-age space opera about the people who pull off the impossible extraction. Read it for fast, gadget-and-guts adventure from a dependable magazine hand.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

4 hr 14 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).