Product Description
by Victor Appleton II (Author), Thomas Hudson (Author)
In the exciting twentieth adventure of this new series, Tom Swift finds a pleasant day test sailing a new yacht is turning into an attack from the sky. Out of nowhere a lightning bolt strikes his boat and sucks all power from everywhere. Not a freak incident, it seems to be more of a warning of things to come when a large power generating station along the East Coast is attacked next, with the same loss of electricity as if it had been siphoned back into the sky. This time, there is a great deal of damage and a near death.More and more power stations are targeted and now Tom must try to find out several vital things: Who is attacking? Why are they invisible and how do they manage that? What is their purpose in zig-zagging up and down the country hitting station after station?Not only is he broadsided by these attack, he also finds out there is another Tom Swift out there; or rather a Tommy Swift. Together they work to uncover the evil attackers Bud Barclay has dubbed the Electricity Vampires.As the attacks go on and Tom gets no closer to uncovering them, it seems there is a final target in mind, and if they get there, it could be devastating
Author Biography
Thomas Hudson, writing under the pseudonym of Victor Appleton, is an accomplished author with more than 50 books to his credit. Many of his stories take place in the universe of Tom Swift. His imagination and ability to turn out 75,000 word books got him in trouble a few times in high school and college when teachers took him aside and basically said, "Knock it off! If I ask for 5,000 words, stop giving me 10,000! I won't read the extra. I don't have that sort of time." Now retired from life in the fast lane (and the computer industry) he lives in the Pacific Northwest with one wife and one dog and a back yard he really wants to get fixed up, and the tomatoes planted, but his writing gets in the way of doing real chores. It does, on the bright side, keep him from annoying his wife.
