Harlan Ames-formerly the head of Security for Swift Enterprises in the Tom Swift adventures-has made the Moon his permanent residence for decades. More than he cares to think about. Now, as the Chief Commissioner of Security for the Dark Side of the Moon, he tries to let his underlings do the hard work. But, after falling for a singer in one of the nightclubs, he finds himself deep in her troubles as she is arrested for murdering a man she knew years earlier. To make things worse, the man's wife comes up to serve him with divorce papers only to find him dead and Harlan's lady friend the...

In the twenty-first novel in this new series, Tom has defeated the Electricity Vampires and now wants something a bit less diabolical to take up his time. A new X-Prize is announced that intrigues him: fly a solar-powered aircraft, non-stop, around the globe in just 36 hours That sort of speed will require an electrical powered jet, and that will burn up a lot of electricity. So, how can he manage to make what he needs by day... and still have enough to run at full speed at night? Might his recently discovered cousin in England, Thomasina Swift, be of some assistance? Complicating things is...