Beamriders Author:Caidin In the thirty years since lasers were invented, we have learned to use them for jobs as diverse as eye surgery and missile defense. But the biggest advance is yet to come: one day son we will be able to beam human beings from place to place on Erth, and even into space. — Beamriders chronicles the achievements of the men and women who brave death... more » in the development of just such a laser-transport system. Assignments that no one else can accomplish await the survivors: the rescue of a U.S. scientist from a cell beneath the Kremlin; defusing atomic blackmail in Washington; and strangest of all, a mission to the Far Side of the Moon. On Earth and in space, nothing can stop the Beamriders.« less