or: Scodiar629[at]gmail[dot]com
“There's
part of Bud's wrecked plane!” Hovering in his new cycloplane, the SwiftStorm, in turbulent skies above the wilds of the New Guinea
jungle, Tom Swift points to wreckage from his best friend's
crashed jet. The area, flanked by twin volcanoes, is as forbidding as the deserted native huts
clustered in sinister shadows. Without the revolutionary aircraft that is Tom's
latest invention, a rescue attempt would be impossible amid the relentless
storms lashing the region. Leading a rescue expedition, Tom is up against
insect swarms, fierce bats, deadly snakes, quicksand, and furtive shadowers who
launch barrages of razor-sharp stone missiles. Tormented by crafty enemies, the searchers discover that
the young pilot is a captive of unscrupulous criminal partners who have made
him the victim of a weapon of evil power. Tom struggles to defeat his
determined foes, who have discovered an ancient secret in the eerie
surroundings of a dead city watched over by stone gods!