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Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
- On the Border for Uncle Sam
- Narrated by: John Michaels
- Series: Tom Swift, Book 15
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 05-08-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Spoken Realms
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $1.39
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Book number 15 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero pursuing smugglers across the Canadian border. In his friends and a custom agent had to Canada in Tom's mighty airship equipped with the world's greatest Searchlight in search of smugglers were using Shopton as a destination. Of course along the way, Tom and his friends have several hair-raising experiences. This book was originally published in 1912, and attitudes and expressions were different from today, and some may find the language in this material offensive.
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- Red Plammer
- 08-18-16
Pure nostalgia
For 95¢? Crickets. That's swell.
Don't listen while driving. Twenty word minimum requirements is stupid.
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- rknick
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- 06-13-16
This narration is bad
Great story, great book, poor narration. Emphasis in many sentences is misplaced. Every sentence, lol