Brightside Crossing

Peter Claney is the only man who has ever tried to cross the sun side of Mercury and come back alive, and he has the scars to prove it. Now James Baron is planning the same trek at perihelion, and Claney turns up at the Red Lion to tell him exactly why it can't be done.

His story begins at the Twilight Lab with Major Tom Mikuta, eager young Jack Stone and a restless daredevil climber named Ted McIvers. Four men, four Bugs and thirty days to reach the hottest point on the planet, across ground where lead pools like mud and zinc ledges snap like glass. Every mile the Sun gets bigger, and every mile the men get closer to breaking.