Boy Scouts on Motorcycles; Or, with the Flying Squadron

Four American Boy Scouts. Thirty-two horsepower between them. A secret mission in the heart of imperial China. Ned Nestor, Jimmie McGraw, Frank Shaw, and Jack Bosworth aren't your typical scouts. While most boys their age are learning knots and camping, these four have been recruited for something far more dangerous: a Secret Service operation in a nation hurtling toward crisis. Waiting in a dingy Taku apartment for a contact who never arrives, the boys trade complaints about the noise, the smells, and the gnawing sense that they're being watched. Their motorcycles, their greatest asset, become targets themselves, tampered with by unseen hands. As they push on toward Peking, the foreign tension that crackles through every interaction with suspicious locals告诉他们危险正在逼近. G. Harvey Ralphson delivers a breathless少年冒险 that captures an era when American boys dreamed of global adventure and the motorcycle represented the height of modern excitement. This is pure, uncut early twentieth-century adventure fiction, the kind of story that shaped a generation's imagination about what boys could accomplish if they were bold enough to try.