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ON THE TRAIL OF THE SPACE PIRATES
By CAREY ROCKWELL
No. 3 in the A TOM CORBETT Space Cadet Adventure series

The Tom Corbett series:
STAND BY FOR MARS!, 1952
DANGER IN DEEP SPACE, 1953
ON THE TRAIL OF THE SPACE PIRATES, 1953
THE SPACE PIONEERS, 1953
THE REVOLT ON VENUS, 1954
TREACHERY IN OUTER SPACE, 1955
SABOTAGE IN SPACE, 1956
THE ROBOT ROCKET, 1956

Pirate stories are exciting enough, but a tale of piracy in the vast interplanetary spaces
is a thousand times more thrilling than any story of the high seas or the Spanish Main.
This is the story of how Bull Coxine and his crew of cutthroat pirates came within an ace
of taking control of the space lanes by threatening to destroy the great Solar Alliance, and
how Tom Corbett and his two pals, Roger Manning and Astro of the Polaris unit, helped to
foil the giant buccaneer's desperate scheme.
It all began at the Venusport Exposition whither the three cadets under the command of
Captain Strong had been ordered to exhibit the Polaris. There some suspicious events took
place, which sent the Polaris unit to the prison asteroid just in time to be caught in the
pirates' sneak attack which resulted in the freeing of Bull Coxine and all of the prisoners. For
a period the freebooters roamed the space lanes at will capturing ships and pillaging ports
while the cruisers of the Solar Alliance hunted for them in vain.
The final battle in which the pirate fleet and the combined forces of the Alliance fought it
out to a finish, finds the three cadets taking an important part in the struggle which
culminates in the capture of Bull Coxine.
"These Tom Corbett stories keep getting more and more exciting!" writes a young
reader. If you thought the first two were exciting, just wait until you read this one!



WILLY LEY Technical Adviser
GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York
COPYRIGHT 1953 BY ROCKHILL RADIO
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece
Hawks stood up and eyed the two men coldly
Tom saw three pretty girls board the ship
The hatch opened again and the two spacemen entered the air lock
The scar-faced man obviously wanted something from Tom
The young cadet timed his move perfectly
All Solar Guard defense measures seemed to be futile
Astro and Coxine were locked in mortal combat