The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coontss Saucer brings back the characters, action and exhilaration that made the original a smashAfter discovering the secrets of a ,-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers that the project director has installed a world-threatening antigravity beam. The French kidnap Rips Uncle Egg and force him to fly a saucer, hidden in Area , to the moon. Rip and Charley have no choiceto rescue Egg and save the world, they must steal the first saucer from its new home, the National Air and Space Museum, and hit the not-so-friendly skies again.