Primed for promotion to the WorldJournal city editor grizzled senior reporterPop is stunned when its announced that young Leonard Caulborn the publisherssoninla... » 

Primed for promotion to the WorldJournal city editor grizzled senior reporterPop is stunned when its announced that young Leonard Caulborn the publisherssoninlaw will get the post. Worse the lad wants him out. In protest Popdemands to be given a beat again and gets his wish. . . only now hes got justtwo days to find the real story about a deadend assignment a montholdphysics lecture or be fired. When Pop starts searching for the storyssource a professor named Pertwee he lands in the middle of the story of acentury after the Empire State Building Grants Tomb and Grand Central Stationall disappear. Apparently Pertwees the mastermind behind it all. But Pop soondiscovers that instead of inventing a new way to blow things up the professormay be doing quite the opposite. «