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On the airless surface of the Moon the ‘cold war’ continues, with the bases of the major world powers watching each other and waiting . . .

The dedicated personnel of Britain’s Moon Base seemed well-adjusted to their peculiar existence despite a series of mysterious happenings. What bothers them most is the visit of a Royal Commission sent by an economically-worried British Government to investigate expenditure. Travelling with the Commission, but under separate and secret orders, is Felix Larsen, who’s investigations are of quite a different nature.

Larsen, alive to the possibilities of espionage, soon finds himself faced with the inexplicable. Why should one man fall a thousand feet and escape with minor bruises while another dies after falling a mere eighteen inches? Why does a desperate man, bent on suicide and with all the means at hand, find it absolutely impossible to kill himself? What are the strange messages emanating from the Base – and from whence do they come? And what is the fantastic thing that has been conceived in the research department?

In Operation Columbus a landing was made on the Moon. But the mystery of those sinister domes that had suddenly appeared there – and of the evil grey mist that gathered so unaccountably now and then – was as far from a solution as ever. There was only one possible course of action: to establish a permanent base. And once that was decided there wasn’t much doubt that young Chris Godfrey would be sent to man it.

But this time he isn’t alone in his rocket. His old friends Serge and Norrey are with hi,’ and he’s got a new friend – young Tony whose very life may depend on the expedition’s success. In charge of the whole fantastic project is Sir Leo Frayling, cold-blooded and ruthless as ever; and, of course, Sir George Benson and Whiskers Greatrex play their part too.