CONTENTS
1 Airport Alarm
2 Capsule Explosion
3 Aroused Suspicions
4 Startling Phone Call
5 The Curse of Shaitan
6 Crucial Pressure Test
7 Tom Takes a Dare
8 A Challenging Expedition
9 Mysterious Hostility
10 Magnetic Homing Pigeon
11 Calling All Hams!
12 Radioactive!
13 The Furtive Jeweler
14 Fierce Tribesmen
15 Night Raid
16 A Terrified Camp
17 The Amir’s Mine
18 Surprise Blast-Off
19 The Ruby Weapon
20 Jet Rescue
CHAPTER I
AIRPORT ALARM
“Tom, your new atomic sports car is absolutely dreamy!” said Phyllis Newton.
Eighteen-year-old Tom Swift Jr. grinned at the pretty, dark-haired girl’s excitement as his sleek, bronze racer glided along the highway leading out of Shopton.
“You should call it the Silent Streak!” suggested Sandra Swift, Tom’s seventeen-year-old blond sister, who was riding in the back seat with Bud Barclay.
“Good name, Sandy,” Tom agreed, “but the publicity releases will call it a triphibian atomicar.”
“Open ‘er up, skipper!” Bud urged his pal.
Tom advanced the unicontrol lever and the car arrowed forward with a whoosh! His three companions were thrilled by its smooth, noiseless response.
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Suddenly Sandy gasped.
“Tom! Slow down for this curve!” she begged.
But instead of slowing, the bubble-hooded atomicar hurtled straight toward a stone wall.
Bud Barclay clutched the back of Tom’s bucket seat. “What’s wrong?” he gulped.
“Don’t know!” Tom cried, frantically thumbing the brake button on top of the steering lever as he swung the lever hard left.
No response! In seconds the car would plow into the embankment like a bronze thunderbolt!