Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker [The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures]

Victor Appleton II

ISBN 10: 0448091232 / ISBN 13: 9780448091235

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1964

About this Item

Very good condition. Pictorial covers, no dust jacket as issued. Cover has very little wear, pages have a couple of small spots on the bottom edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover, no dust jacket as issued; 1964 edition, later printing. ISBN: 9780448091235, 178 pages, cover art by Charles Brey with interior illustrations by Edward Moritz. 12mo (5" x 7.5") Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker (The New Tom Swift Jr Adventures #23), by Jim Lawrence writing as Victor Appleton II. Books on back cover list thru Tom Swift #25, Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere.

Seller Inventory # 122019089780448091235cgr

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker [The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures]
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication Date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0448091232
• ISBN 13: 9780448091235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens classics
  • science fiction/fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

Tom Swift and his pal Bud Barclay embark on one of the greatest scientific adventures of the century--a daring underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, equipped only with Tom's electronic hydro-lung suits! Hundreds of miles from land, the hydro-lung batteries inexplicably go dead and the two boys are dramatically rescued in the dark of the night. Examination of their equipment reveals sabotage.

A complex clue leads Tom to believe there is a connection between the sabotaging of the hydro-lung and the sinking of the S. S. Centurion--which went down in mid-Atlantic with a fortune in gold bullion and a world-famous statue aboard. After making good on their second attempt to accomplish the nonstop swim under the atlantic, Tom and Bud are given the assignment of salvaging the Centurion's valuable cargo. To locate the sunken ship, Tom designs the aquatomic tracker, an astounding device that detects and identifies metallic and chemical traces left by an object in water, then tracks the object.

How the young scientist-inventor outwits the vicious saboteurs and traps the most fiendishly clever master-mind of crime he has ever met makes a fast-moving story of super-suspense.