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“Tom!
Someone
has stolen your invention!” Bud Barclay tells his pal Tom Swift. And
when an
engineer in France publically demonstrates a remarkable machine that
changes
the properties of matter, it seems Bud is right. The authorities
suspect that
another stolen invention, the stealth drone known as the Eyeballer, is
involved. But the device has been designed to be unstoppable! Meanwhile
Bud is
asked to pilot a months-long manned probe to the planet Venus--not with
Tom in
an Enterprises craft, but in a ship designed by a rival company. Tom
promises
to follow Bud’s historic flight by perfecting his megascope space
prober, a
mighty eye that uses a technique science has deemed impossible to “keep
an eye
on the universe.” When another of Tom’s new inventions, his Private Ear
Radio,
is replicated, Tom devotes all his youthful genius to unmasking and
defeating
his foes and the mastermind behind them. But what challenge will prove
hardest
for Tom to overcome? --climbing the sheer wall of a skyscraper,
mounting a
fantastic rescue operation in outer space--or
flying an igloo?