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Tom Swift: Seeking the Platinum Treasure: Swift by Name and Swift by Nature!
Tom Swift Seeking the Platinum Treasure Swift by Name and Swift by Nature Author:Victor Appleton Tom helps a friend track down some crooked diamond makers, taking with him his crack team, and Mr. Parker (a disaster-predicting scientist). After a long search and plenty of adventures along the way, the small band locates the diamond makers -- but is then captured. Can they escape from Phantom Mountain before it's destroyed? Tom Swift, the i... more »nspirational boyhood hero of Steve Wozniak and Isaac Asimov, is an all-American young inventor in his teens. These fantastic and future-predicting stories are VERY alive today. Swift was modeled after the entrepreneurial and inventive geniuses Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, who both changed our world more than any other two people. Like Arthur C. Clarke, Swift invented or predicted many modern discoveries including the Taser, camcorder, video-phone, electric car, and several others. Join Tom as he battles international terrorists and criminal syndicates!« less