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A raging forest
fire and daring sky-rescue are only the prologue to young Tom Swift's newest
fantastic exploit! From the very moment Tom agrees to help the government of
Ngombia unify the new African nation by constructing a transport system to link
its two provinces -- separated by thick jungle and an eerie, seething swamp --
he is beset by mysterious adversaries who will not allow Swift Enterprises to
succeed where others have failed. Tom comes up with an amazing scientific
solution to the problem, an aerial highway suspended over the jungle at treetop
height, floating on invisible repelatron beams. But Ngombia holds hidden
threats. Weird, gigantic creatures stalk the rain forest, somehow linked to a
long-missing scientist and his remarkable discoveries. Magic, menace, and the
hatred of one tribe for another complicate the skyway project and threaten to
spread to the United States, while the young inventor and his friend Bud face
down the fierce challenges of a primeval African land -- haunted by the past.