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An image
snatched from space draws young Tom Swift into a strange and exciting 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
disappearance 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
Configuration 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.