When he was eight years old, Tom Derringer discovered his father's journal and learned that the late Jack Derringer was a professional adventurer. For the next eight years Tom studied and trained to follow in his father's footsteps. Then in 1882, when a mysterious flying object appeared in the Arizona sky, Tom set out after it -- and he and his plucky companion Betsy Vanderhart found themselves pursuing a would-be conqueror through the skies and jungles of Mexico... A modern take on the young readers' adventure stories of a hundred years ago.

Lawrence Watt-Evans is the award-winning author of about fifty novels and more than a hundred short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. He lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington with his wife.