Category: Fiction: Science Fiction

Copyright/published Year: 1958 by John C Winston Co

ISBN: n/a

Binding: hardcover

Description: Young Danny Cross couldn't understand the telegram from the ì Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered ì whether it had to do with the reported death of one of America's ì leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White Sands. ì He was surprised to find that it was only another thorough ì security check and a change of security card - the vital "open ì sesame" to anyone living in Alamogordo, New Mexico, at the dawn ì of the Space Age.

Clearly, there was a change in the atmosphere at the proving ì grounds. More and more specialists seemed to be vanishing in ì "rocket explosions" miles above the Earth - explosions without ì debris, and without much investigation other than the security ì checks.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in 'Acceptable' condition.

Additional condition description

SECOND PRINTING, JUNE 1958 of the first edition (1954). Well-read ex-lib copy. No jacket. Edges of covers are well-worn, some threadbare. Spine covered with library tape. 2 pages have stains, rest appear clean. Pocket in inside back cover.