Harold L. Goodwin 3 hr 8 min read

An assignment to a secret rocket base, a ghost town, missing servomotors, and sabotage draw young inventor Rick Brant into the mystery of Scarlet Lake and Project Pegasus.

Harold L. Goodwin's 1958 novel is a brisk juvenile science-adventure from the beloved Rick Brant series. Fast, clever, wholesome period SF. Read it for a rousing boys' mystery where scientific know-how and courage untangle sabotage and intrigue at a top-secret rocket base in the Nevada desert.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 8 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).