Special Patrol Service officer John Hanson (hero of ten Wright stories) stumbles upon a mad
inventor who has traveled many centuries to Hanson’s beachfront Denver in order to obtain
knowledge that will let him become the absolute, unquestioned, supreme master back in the
21st century.
I could not help wondering, as we settle swiFTLy over the city, whether our historians
and geologists and other scientists were really right in saying that Denver had at one
period been far from the Pacific.