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A blood-soaked
figure staggers out of the Shopton night with a message for Tom Swift-- a death
foretold in the Middle Eastern country of Ugarta that only Tom can prevent! But
crucial details of the mystery message will remain tragically lost unless the
brilliant young inventor can perfect his newest fantastic accomplishment, a
machine that can recover dead sounds from the past. Tom’s mission to the
ancient land, riven by hate and intrigue, brings him up against a death-dealing
faction and a secretive adversary named Pallida Mors, a woman whose identity
remains veiled. In the background of the urgent task is a group of scholars who
call themselves the Resurrectors, archaeologists investigating the primordial cult
of the man-fish-god Oannes in his buried temple. How are the two related? And
how will Tom and his pal Bud Barclay stave off their own sentence of death-- as
a cruise missile on wheels zeroes-in on the two Americans, pursuing them on
city streets that dead-end in the wall of a skyscraper?