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A fantastic
artifact from the depths of the South Pacific leads Tom Swift to a mystery from
the depths of time. The find, one of two matched pieces, is a beacon, clue to
the location of a cache of scientific data buried beneath the sea more than two
hundred million years in the past! Tom’s extraterrestrial contacts urge the
young inventor to recover the lost memory crypt. But other space beings also
seek it and have enlisted their own human agents, murderous plotters with
scientific expertise. If the Others reach the crypt first, the deadly
consequences will spread beyond Earth to other worlds.To probe beneath the
subocean floor Tom designs his geotron, a manned mole-mobile that can penetrate
the solid ground like a tunneling torpedo. The first field test goes ominously
awry -- Tom and his pal Bud are trapped amid bedrock deep below ground.The
mystery takes the two, with the reckless adventurer who discovered the beacon
artifact, to the distant Pacific. There Tom struggles to unravel the meaning of
a phantom Wheel of Light, and to outwit his enemies on Easter Island, whose
ancient, brooding heads of stone watch the ocean in silence, the ocean that
cloaks a treasure bearing the secret of life!