The story of young Peter Larson and his good friend Larry is told against a fresh, exciting background of logging camp in the North Pacific Logging Company's lumber camps and foaming rivers. Salmon fishing, logging and tangles with Red Regan a man hated and feared by the whole country the discovery of a log thief, and the chance to clear his friend's name combine to make a crowded summer for Peter -- and fast, action-packed reading for boys from 10 to 13.