Tom Swift Lives! Megascope Space Prober (Tom Swift reimagined! Book 20)

“Tom! Someone has stolen your invention!” Bud Barclay tells his pal Tom Swift. And when an engineer in France publically demonstrates a remarkable machine that changes the properties of matter, it seems Bud is right. The authorities suspect that another stolen invention, the stealth drone known as the Eyeballer, is involved. But the device has been designed to be unstoppable! Meanwhile Bud is asked to pilot a months-long manned probe to the planet Venus—not with Tom in an Enterprises craft, but in a ship designed by a rival company. Tom promises to follow Bud’s historic flight by perfecting his megascope space prober, a mighty eye that uses a technique science has deemed impossible to “keep an eye on the universe.” When another of Tom’s new inventions, his Private Ear Radio, is replicated, Tom devotes all his youthful genius to unmasking and defeating his foes and the mastermind behind them. But what challenge will prove hardest for Tom to overcome? —climbing the sheer wall of a skyscraper, mounting a fantastic rescue operation in outer space—or flying an igloo? By the author of the YOUNG & SMART series.