Iceland Intrigue

In Iceland Intrigue by C.R. Hedgcock, Phil Baker is having trouble with an invention and the only answers he can get on how to fix it is to go to Iceland to meet a recluse genius named Sigurd. But Phil doesn't want to travel, convinced that every time his family travels danger follows them. But this time they discover that there is an organization with a machine that can trigger natural disasters, and the Bakers must try and foil this plan!