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TOM SWIFT AND THE ASTEROID PIRATES
BY VICTOR APPLETON II
No. 21 in the Tom Swift Jr. series.

From the front:
A violent explosion in space touches off one of the most thrill-packed
adventures in Tom Swift Jr.'s scientific career. The appalling news that a cargo
rocket has disintegrated while en route with vital supplies to Swift Enterprises'
research base on the asteroid, Nestria, sounds a grim warning that the lives of
Nestria's personnel are at stake.
To rescue the marooned men, Tom undertakes a hazardous voyage to
Nestria, only to find the way blocked by an invisible barrier of deadly radiation
created by an unknown enemy whose objective is possession of the base.
Tension mounts at Swift Enterprises when a mysterious Oriental is shot while
attempting to warn Tom that his life is in danger from the Black Cobra. The
Oriental's mumbled warning, plus some revealing data collected by United States
Intelligence, sends Tom winging to a secret fortress in South America for the first
encounter with his inscrutable foe.
But the decisive encounter is destined to take place in space. How Tom uses
his new invention, the magnetic deflector, to crack the radiation barrier around
Nestria, and how the young space scientist and his crewmen pit their wits and
courage against the asteroid pirates and their diabolical leader, the Black Cobra,
will hold every reader breathless with suspense.

The Tom Swift Jr. series:
1 Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (1954)
2 Tom Swift and his Jetmarine (1954)
3 Tom Swift and his Rocket Ship (1954)
4 Tom Swift and his Giant Robot (1954)
5 Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954)
6 Tom Swift and his Outpost in Space (1955)
7 Tom Swift and his Diving Seacopter (1956)
8 Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (1956)
9 Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite (1956)
10 Tom Swift and his Ultrasonic Cycloplane (1957)
11 Tom Swift and his Deep-Sea Hydrodome (1958)
12 Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon (1958)
13 Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (1958)
14 Tom Swift and his Electronic Retroscope (1959)
15 Tom Swift and his Spectromarine Selector (1960)
16 Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts (1960)
17 Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (1961)
18 Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung (1961)
19 Tom Swift and his Triphibian Atomicar (1962)
20 Tom Swift and his Megascope Space Prober (1962)
21 Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates (1963)
22 Tom Swift and his Repelatron Skyway (1963)
23 Tom Swift and his Aquatomic Tracker (1964)
24 Tom Swift and his 3D Telejector (1964)
25 Tom Swift and his Polar-Ray Dynasphere (1965)