So the final normal post of the year before its Miranda awards and best of annual round ups.
The Firebird Rocket is one of the canon books that make up the original corpus of works. The first 57 books. Its not a bad little tale this. The Hardys go to Australia to look into who is sabotaging a rocket launch and find a missing senators son.
You get Sydney, Port Augusta, Adelaide and Alice Springs, as places and an incongruous recruitment at a "soccer" match, given the Aussies track record in the "beautiful game" surely they could have edited this to be a cricket match or rugby game, but no our missing senators son is picked up at the footy.
Chet Morton has one of his temporary hobbies, this time launching rockets, which is enough to win the science fair and get him to Oz with our boys.
It starts off with a lab mishap and a call from Fenton Hardy for the boys to go to Princeton, where the Firebird Rocket is being developed, before leads lead them to Australia.
The UK version has some amendments to the text, with it expanded in places and cut in others. Also all references to Abo's are altered to aborigines, here, as I guess it was deemed beyond the pale here in 90's Britain. Also there are a lot of US slang dropped from this. No gumshoes here, nor are the boys called punk kids.
All in all it is not a bad read, not terrible, but not going to set the world on fire.
If you want to read it, you can read it here.
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