The world believed that aviator Tom Franklin was dead.
Desperately seeking the help of Doc Savage, the mighty Man of Bronze, Franklin and his curvaceous charge fall into the clutches of diamond smuggler Blackbird Hinton and his cutthroat crew-but not before the bronze a.
Years before, he had set out on a pioneering transpacific flight alone-and vanished When he returned, as it from the grave, Franklin and a mysterious woman flew a battered plane that had been repaired with plates of pure gold.
The world believed that aviator Tom Franklin was dead