America's fastest cyclists are racing Frank Reade Junior's new electric tricycle from Chicago to New Orleans to benefit charity. But when bookmakers and casinos begin to take bets on the winner, every lowlife gambler in the Mississippi decides to bend the odds in their favor. Can the world's greatest boy inventor survive his life-or-death race?In this classic 1893 science fiction tale, Cuban-American author Luis Senarens brings us another thrilling adventure of the 19th Century's most daring kid inventor, boy genius Frank Reade Junior!