Tom Swift and his Aquatomic Tracker
By: by Victor Appleton II [pseudonym]; illustrated by Edward Moritz.
Contributors: Edward Moritz (Illustrator)
Series: Tom Swift Jr. #23
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780001622050
Subjects: Swift, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.; Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction.; Science fiction -- Juvenile.; Underwater exploration -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: 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 hydrolung suits! Hundreds of miles from land, the hydrolung batteries inexplicably go dead and the two boys are dramatically rescued in the dark of night. Examination of their equipment reveals sabotage.

A complex clue leads Tom to believe there is a connection between the sabotaging of the hydrolung and the sinking of the SS 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 mastermind of crime he has ever met makes a fast-moving story of super-suspense.
Table of contents: title: The Drowning Roman
label: Chapter 1; title: SOS!
label: Chapter 2; title: Chow Winkler, Detective
label: Chapter 3; title: The Singing Merman
label: Chapter 4; title: Deadly Trawler
label: Chapter 5; title: Tom Swift's Double
label: Chapter 6; title: A Transatlantic Call
label: Chapter 7; title: London Dragnet
label: Chapter 8; title: The Undersea Mesa
label: Chapter 9; title: Bloodhound Experiment
label: Chapter 10; title: The Shark Man
label: Chapter 11; title: Mystery Millionaire
label: Chapter 12; title: Gold Clue
label: Chapter 13; title: The Secret Crypt
label: Chapter 14; title: Prisoners
label: Chapter 15; title: A Gruesome Foe
label: Chapter 16; title: Vanished Evidence
label: Chapter 17; title: Sonar Signal
label: Chapter 18; title: Danger Trail
label: Chapter 19; title: Trapped Below
label: Chapter 20