Rick Brant, son of a famous scientist, makes a dream of free flight come true when he fashions a rocket belt in the famed Spindrift Scientific Laboratories. Experiments with the belt are interrupted by summer jobs for Rick and his pal Scotty at a top-secret military project in Nevada. The boys are assigned to operate a missile tracking station, and to help counterintelligence find the spies who are collecting information about the missile project and selling it to Iron Curtain countries.

     A ring of ruthless espionage agents, the inferno of a raging forest fire, a dangerous and daring rocket jump––with the lives of two girls at stake––all go to make this a fast-moving, high-tension yarn of Rick Brant action.