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When one of Tom
Swift’s closest friends vanishes in turbulent Pakistan, the young inventor is
thrust into a world of mystery, intrigue, and deadly danger! The frightening
incident leads to an invitation by a royal prince to visit Vishnapur, an
ancient kingdom in the high Himalayas troubled by secret plotters and the
destructive effects of a poisonous lake that may cloak treasures of the country’s
lost past. First Tom must solve a scientific crisis. A robot probe circling
Titan, the huge moon of distant Saturn, has begun to undergo mysterious shifts
in its orbit. Unless Tom can prevent the Kronus satellite from plunging into
the Titanian atmosphere, nuclear contamination could doom future space-science
research. The solution may rest with the youth’s new invention, the dynasphere --
if he can perfect a version powerful enough to reach across billions of miles
of space, and a new spacecraft able to carry it. But success in deep space may
depend upon detective work in exotic Vishnapur, as Tom and his friend Bud
Barclay run up against ruthless men who deal death and throw lightning at the
sky in the name of Yamantaka -- the trickster demon-god!