TOM SWIFT AND HIS
SUBOCEAN GEOTRON
by VICTOR APPLETON II

A FANTASTIC artifact from the depths of the South Pacific leads Tom Swift to a mystery from the depths of time. The find, one of two matched pieces, is a beacon, clue to the location of a cache of scientific data buried beneath the sea more than two hundred million years in the past!
    Tom's extraterrestrial contacts urge the young inventor to recover the lost memory crypt. But other space beings also seek it and have enlisted their own human agents, murderous plotters with scientific expertise. If the Others reach the crypt first, the deadly consequences will spread beyond Earth to other worlds.
    To probe beneath the subocean floor Tom designs his geotron, a manned mole-mobile that can penetrate the solid ground like a tunneling torpedo. The first field test goes ominously awry —  Tom and his pal Bud are trapped amid bedrock deep below ground.
    The mystery takes the two, with the reckless adventurer who discovered the beacon artifact, to the distant Pacific. There Tom struggles to unravel the meaning of a phantom Wheel of Light, and to outwit his enemies on Easter Island, whose ancient, brooding heads of stone watch the ocean in silence, the ocean that cloaks a treasure bearing the secret of life!