Operation, Outer Space

Jed Cochrane -- sophisticate in a world grown too crowded to breathe, newsman, interviewer, television personality -- begins this tale when he's sent on a wild goose chase (literally, to the moon) after the wayward son of one of his network's principals. But the path he follows will lead him to the stars -- and beyond them! * Murray Leinster published more than fifteen hundred stories in a life that lasted the best part of the 20th century -- from 1896 until 1975. He's remembered as a great deal less a writer than he was: he tells a thoughtful, stylish tale, and he tells it damned well. . . .