Fred Wallis came to Davidson, California, with a big, crooked plan in mind. Then he just ... disappeared. Fred's brother hired Larry Kent to go west and find out what had become of him—a job Larry was glad to accept, since Fred had been a childhood friend of his.
But the minute he started asking around, he became a target. Someone wanted Fred's secret plan to remain just that. But who was behind the attempts on Larry's life? Carl Esposito, the oily little manager of the Carousel Club? C. R. Partridge, whose bonhomie seemed too good to be true ... or the enigmatic Johnathon Sebastian Everard, the Senior Elder of a mysterious cult known as Astral Quest, who believed that he was descended from aliens ...?