The Drone Pursuit, Victor Appleton
The Drone Pursuit, Victor Appleton
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The Drone Pursuit

Author: Victor Appleton

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 08/27/2019


Synopsis

When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you’re bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class. At the academy, once class starts and the drone is parked, their brainiac friends then launch into farfetched discussions about the curriculum. And when they watch a documentary about the FBI’s most wanted hackers from the eighties, they quickly start speculating that the academy custodian is one of them.

At first, Tom dismisses the idea as another one of his friends’ conspiracy theories. But using their new drone, he spies the custodian acting suspiciously around school. As Tom and his friends search for evidence that the custodian is the missing hacker, the signs become impossible to ignore when Tom gets threatening messages that warn him away from investigating. And when someone releases a virus in the school servers, all bets are off as the adjoining servers at tech giant Swift Enterprises come under fire. Can Tom and his friends uncover the true culprit before it’s too late?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pop

An Updated, Lighter Weight, "Tom Swift" In the old days, (which I remember well), the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and Enid Blyton's various kid combos, searched for smugglers in hidden sea caves. Good stuff. Now, these same heroes track down hackers in hidden server farms. Also good stuff, but......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

A new Tom Swift, Jr. series. I wasn't a fan of Tom Swift until the Wanderer Books series that first saw publication in 1981. That series is still my favorite of the six Tom Swift series. Yet I find this series starts off surprisingly better than the current Nancy Drew Diaries and Hardy Boys Adventur......more

I felt this book was underwhelming. I remember reading Tom Swift as a kid and being entranced by the science and tech. But in this case, I feel it fell flat. Knowing that "Victor Appleton" is a pseudonym that has been used since 1910, I might have just not liked this author. But in general, if you d......more