Harold L. Goodwin 3 hr 29 min read

A cipher message, heavy water, Project X, and a trail into the mountains of Asia lead young inventor Rick Brant toward the black Buddha and the labyrinthine Caves of Fear.

Harold L. Goodwin's 1951 novel is a brisk juvenile science-adventure from the beloved Rick Brant series. Fast, clever, globe-trotting period SF. Read it for a rousing boys' mystery where scientific know-how and courage carry Rick and Scotty into international intrigue and peril in the far East.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).