Deflection - A Race Against Time — A. Nation

A young native boy finds a strange piece of metal in the desert of Arizona. This amulet guides him into adulthood during the twenty-fifth century as Tucson's finest detective. After he investigates the third murder of the night, he meets a distraught rich girl. Is she the reason Alex Blackhawk dodges a blaster bullet? He places the young woman in a safe house with friends as he follows his hunch to the Moon and Mars where he meets one of the visiting aliens for the first time.