The Radiant Shell

Government leaders learn that secret designs for a devastating heat-ray have been stolen by a small foreign power and face the prospect of rapid national defeat unless the plans are recovered. A scientist proposes a desperate covert plan: to render himself effectively invisible by coating his body with a newly formulated, glasslike camouflage and infiltrate the foreign embassy to seize the documents. The narrative follows the painful preparation, the technical details and risks of the invisibility shell, the moral and strategic tensions of an unofficial mission, and the suspenseful attempt to execute the clandestine retrieval under strict secrecy.