Appleton, Victor – Tom Swift Jr 23 – And His Aquatomic Tracker

CONTENTS

1 The Drowning Roman

2 SOS!

3 Chow Winkler, Detective

4 The Singing Merman

5 Deadly Trawler

6 Tom Swift’s Double

7 A Transatlantic Call

8 London Dragnet

9 The Undersea Mesa

10 Bloodhound Experiment

11 The Shark Man

12 Mystery Millionaire

13 Gold Clue

14 The Secret Crypt

15 Prisoners

16 A Gruesome Foe

17 Vanished Evidence

18 Sonar Signal

19 Danger Trail

20 Trapped Below

CHAPTER I

THE DROWNING ROMAN

“Tom, this will be one of the greatest scientific adventures of the century!”

declared Dan Perkins of the Shopton Evening Bulletin. “We’ll all be pulling for youl”

“Thanks, Dan.” Tom Swift Jr., the famous young inventor, and his friend Bud Barclay, grinned gamely as a crowd of reporters bombarded them with questions and comments.

“I venture to say it will rank with the first transatlantic flight and your first space orbitl” The TV interviewer extended a microphone toward Tom.

“// we succeed,” Tom said soberly.

The newsmen had gathered at the Swift rocket base on Fearing Island to watch the two boys take off on a daring underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, equipped only with Tom’s amazing electronic hydrolung suits!

“Our faces will sure be red if we don’t make it after all this build-up,” muttered Bud.

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2 AQUATOMIC TRACKER

Tom agreed. The tall, eighteen-year-old scientist had planned the test as a private experiment in undersea survival and mobility. But due to the excitement and enthusiasm of Swift Enterprises’ personnel, it had proved impossible to enforce the news-blackout order.

“How long will the crossing take?” a Consolidated Press reporter asked Tom.