The year is 1922. Radio is magic. Across the American frontier, young men with crystal sets and homemade transmitters are connecting distant towns, chasing signals through the night, and stumbling onto adventures their fathers never imagined. Jack Hampton is one of them. When his friend Frank writes that he's coming for a visit, Jack expects nothing more than a few weeks of radio experiments and good company. Then Don Ferdinand vanishes while tracking the notorious bandido Ramirez into the desert badlands. Now Jack must use everything he's learned about wireless telegraphy to aid the search, racing against time in a landscape where the border blurs, outlaws run free, and a man's life hangs on the strength of a signal. This is adventure fiction stripped to its bones: friendship tested by danger, courage measured against the unknown, and the thrill of a young person using ingenuity to save the day.
