TOM SWIFT AND HIS
AQUATOMIC TRACKER

by VICTOR APPLETON II

An image snatched from space draws young Tom Swift into a strange and excit- ing mystery beneath the North Atlantic!
    The video image of a drowning Roman may portend terrorist action by a covey of European agents — a suspicion that seems confirmed by the inexplicable sinking of the supertanker Centurion and the disap- pearance of the wreck from the ocean floor. Just as Tom begins to fulfill his promise to crack the code buried in the image, he receives grim news: his best friend Bud has been caught up in the catastrophic ruin of a Swedish engineering project in which Swift Enterprises is a crucial partner.
    To follow the subsea trail, Tom devises an ingenious underwater tracking system. The invention leads the young inventor and his friends to a seamount near Iceland and to near death in the icy deep.
    The trail leads on to London, to Paris, to a secret lab compound on the coast of Spain, and to a question: What is Confi- guration Eighteen? It is only after Tom completes and perfects his aquatomic tracker that the trail comes to an explosive end, high above the waves — and in the cold blue depths below.
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