


You know how, on earth, parents will sometimes drag you to their friends’ house for the night and ask you to hang with their friends’ kid, even though they know the two of you don’t really get along? Well, imagine that, instead of going over to their friends’ house for one night, you’ve gone over for three years. I was just stuck with them, and the only other boy my age, Roddy Marquez, wasn’t much fun to hang out with. There were other kids at MBA, but I hadn’t been given any choice in selecting them. Not only did we have to deal with the same lousy dehydrated food and cramped sleeping spaces and sadistic toilets as the adults, but there were a host of other problems for kids. But as hard as it was for the adults, it was even worse being a kid there. It turned out, living on the moon was far more difficult than anyone had predicted. When NASA had recruited us, they had made it sound like MBA would be the most exciting, amazing, incredible place in the universe.

Along with a handful of other scientists and their children, we lived at Moon Base Alpha, the first human settlement in outer space. We were some of the first lunar colonists. Now, before you start thinking that my father was the biggest cheapskate on earth, there are a few things you need to know:įor starters, my father couldn’t have been the biggest cheapskate on earth, because we didn’t live on earth. And Dash is charged with finding out who it could have been.Įveryone has a motive, and time is running out.For my thirteenth birthday, my father gave me the greatest present I could have ever hoped for: He took me outside to play catch. Now there's a murderer loose on Moon Base Alpha But of course multi-billionaire and total pain Lars Sjoburg ruins it-by being poisoned. After solving a murder and rescuing the moon base commander, he just wants to have a calm, quiet thirteenth birthday.

Moon Base Alpha was supposed to be an exciting place to live, but Dash didn't expect for it to beĮxciting. Tensions are running high when multi-billionaire Lars Sjoburg is poisoned and demands to go home and everyone is looking to Dash Gibson to solve the case in this third and final book in the
