Free (Kindle) Secret of the Lost Planet by Angus MacVicar [Vintage YA SF Space Opera]

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Secret of the Lost Planet by the late Scottish author Angus MacVicar (ISFDB, Wikipedia, SFE), perhaps best known for his crime thrillers, is the 3rd novel in his Jeremy Grant series of vintage juvenile science fiction adventures starring a suddenly-orphaned teen who goes to live with the obligatory eccentric uncle who turns out to be a secret spaceship-inventing scientist, this one a thrilling adventure on a mysterious lost planet, where a nefarious outsider plans to steal the peaceful population's powerful thought-sending device for his own purposes, and of course must be thwarted by the plucky spaceship crew and the local friends they make, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.

This was originally published in 1955 by Burke and were very popular and adapted to radio and TV serials, back in the day. We've previously received the 1st novel as a freebie as well, which is the one where they first landed on the featured planet.

Currently free @ Amazon (currently just free to the US & UK and unfree for Canadians and possibly elsewhere, but should probably drop pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program which is apparently being glitchy today)

Description
A new frontier...

In this thrilling follow up to Angus MacVicar’s THE LOST PLANET, we rejoin our narrator Jeremy, his uncle Lachlan, Janet, Spike, Madge and Asa on their return journey to The Lost Planet of Hesikos.

Jeremy and his friends must get Asa back to her father before the menacing Herr Schenke comes to steal the Electronome from the Hesikians. The Electronome is a powerful device which can send thoughts to distant places, and with it under his control, Schenke plans to harness its powers for evil, waging war on the entire galaxy.

But the people of Hesikos are a peaceful people, and they have neither the weapons nor the malice to take on Schenke and his men.

It’s up to Uncle Lachlan and his team to come up with a plan to defeat their enemy, or, at least, to hold them off until Winter comes – in only ten days time.

Asa’s father, Solveg, is tempted to give up the Electronome to maintain his people’s peaceful way of life, but doing so would put planet Earth, and his friends, in great danger.

Solveg faces the ultimate problem: protect his people, or stand up in resistance to Herr Schenke.

Will Uncle Lachlan’s brilliant scientific mind be enough to fend off Schenke’s advances?

Or will he and his team have to adopt the peaceful Hesikian way of life to find a solution?

SECRET OF THE LOST PLANET is a suspenseful science fiction adventure tale set around the mysterious world of Hesikos.