A TIME FOR TIGERS by Robert F. Burgess

A TIME FOR TIGERS
ISBN: 0595094961

This is the adventurous tale of two modern-day Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn-type youngsters who while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico land a large tiger shark that quick-jumps Shandy and his buddy, Jib smack in the middle of an international plot. For inside the shark is an electronic sensor. The United States Government wants to know where these sensors come from. After being invited aboard an oceanographic ship tracking sharks with sensors, the boys end up imprisoned on a Caribbean island. There they discover a deadly nuclear plot against the U.S. and risk their lives to thwart it. 289 pages. Paperback: 5.5 x 8.5-inches. Illustrated by Vic Donahue. © 1968/2000 Published by iUniverse.com.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Night Shark
2. Strange Current
3. Elmira and Crew
4. Kip's Electronic Shark Hunter
5. Clear for Action
6. Shark Alley
7. A 400-million-year-old Computer?
8. Beyond the Deepwater Curve
9. Visitors From the Depths
10. To the Place of No Return
11. Prisoners of La Chunga
12. Colonel Kamo
13. Into the Shark Pen
14. The Plot
15. Only One Way Out
16. Enmeshed
17. The Valley of Death
18. Last Ordeal

FROM THE BOOK:

   Jib lunged for the gunwale. The shark kept going in the direction of the bow.
"Now back to the stern! Lean on him all you can - turn him!"
   Jib did as he was told. He was beyond feeling now. All that mattered was that he had to turn the shark, had to make it swing back toward him before the shark crossed the bow, cutting the line on the ship's hull.
   From the corner of the stern he gave the rod every ounce of strength he possessed, plus a bit more he never knew he had. Through his numbed arms he sensed rather than felt the faint, stubborn, bulldog movements of the shark struggling to keep from turning. But gradually it gave...begrudgingly it began to swerve. And then it finally turned.
   While they cheered Jib, they advised him, "Reel! Reel like mad!"
   And reel he did, palming the sweat-slick fist-sized plastic handle of his reel and cranking it for all he was worth.
   "He's coming up. Get that tail rope ready, Jonah!"
   The shark swept darkly to the surface, its unusually broad, blunt head plowing the water ahead of its long striped gray body.
   "Good golly, it's a tiger!" shouted Catfish. "Get a snapper on the leader, quick!"

A REVIEW:

"Uncovering a nuclear threat involving sharks along our coasts."
—Spyglass Publications

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A Time For Tigers