"005 (B019) - Pirate of the Pacific (1933-07) - Lester Dent" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

The planes spread out widely and flew low. Each Oriental pilot had high-magnification binoculars jammed to his eyes. With the same machine thoroughness which bad stamped their bloody actions at the airport, they searched the Sound surface.



It was not long before they found what they sought - a narrow craft trailing across the Sound at the head of a long wedge of foaming wake.



The planes headed purposefully for this vessel.







Chapter 2



SEA PHANTOM





THE quarry came rapidly closer. More details of the craft were discernible. The half-caste Mongol pilots continued to use their binoculars. They tilted their planes down in steep dives toward the unusual vessel below.



It was a submarine. It resembled a lean-flanked, razorback whale several hundred feet long. Big steel runners extended from bow to stern, sled fashion. Amidships, a sort of collapsible conning tower reared.



The underseas craft floated high. On the bows, a lettered name was readable:




HELLDIVER.



It was this submarine which had been the subject of the radio news commentator's broadcast.