The Break Through
Publication Details
Type:
Book
Publisher:
Penguin Modern
Published:
1966
Reading Details
Pages:
58
Series:
Penguin Modern
#3
Reading History
1st read
June 16, 2026
Lawrence, Kansas (US)
Highlights
First Paragraph:
My part of the affair started on Septhember 18th, when my chief sent for me and told me he was transferring me to Saxmere on the east coast. He was sorry about it, he said, but I was the only one with the ncecessary technical qualifications for the particular work they had on hand. No, he couldn't give me any details; they were an odd lot down there, and shut themselves up behind barbed wire at the slightest provocation. The place had been a radar experimental station a few years back, but this was finished, and any experiments that were going on now were of an entirely different nature, something to do with vibrations and the pitch of sound.