II Victor Appleton 2 hr 38 min read

Tom Swift Jr. develops the electronic hydrolung for deep-sea diving, and plunges into an undersea adventure of pirate missiles, invisible subs, and a magnetic kidnapping.

Victor Appleton II's 1961 novel is a rousing entry in the Tom Swift Jr. juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, imaginative. Read it for classic mid-century boys' science-adventure, a marvelous diving device, undersea intrigue, and young genius Tom Jr. facing peril beneath the waves, in the bright, optimistic Space Age style that carried the beloved series into a new generation.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

2 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Charles Brey