Victor Appleton 3 hr 10 min read

With war on, Tom Swift invents a silent aircraft for Uncle Sam, a noiseless air scout to master the sky, while spies scheme to steal the secret of his newest wonder.

Victor Appleton's 1919 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic wartime boys' invention-adventure, a marvelous silent airplane, patriotic derring-do, and thwarted espionage, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).