Having outgrown adventuring, young Frank Reade Junior is happy at home, learning to run the family business. But a rumor that British industrialists have their eye on Mexico, planning to construct a railway and develop industries to enrich the Crown has inflamed Frank's patriotic spirit. Everybody knows that Mexico will one day be a State of the Union, and the thought that European powers will swipe a future part of the United States is more than he can stand.

Can Frank Reade Junior and his incredible new air-ship bring the United States and Mexico closer together before the Old World settles on America's shores?

In this classic 1885 science fiction tale, Cuban-American author Luis Senarens brings us another thrilling adventure of the 19th Century's most daring kid inventor, boy genius Frank Reade Junior!