Killed while exercising his love for speed in a racing car, millionaire John Archibald Pump leaves behind ten million US dollars. It will go to the builders of the first aeroplane to fly from Paris to New York at 1000 kilometres per hour. Mr Legrand, Jo and Zette's father sets about designing such a plane, but the project comes under threat from a gang of saboteurs led by William and Fred Stockrise, with Jo being injured in a shooting and Zette being abducted by a stranger before freeing herself, near the French-Belgian border. While Jo recovers in hospital, the two gangsters are put on trial for the attempted shooting of Jo Legrand and the abduction of Zette Legrand. After the trial, the two gangsters are escorted by the police but their custody van is collided by another car and the two gangsters escape. That night with the Legrand family asleep, the two intruders break in their house and kidnap Jo but they escape. Pump's passed-over nephews who will only inherit if the ship is not completed within the year after the reading of the will, who go to all lengths, from theft to bombing, to prevent it.

Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 52 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405212454
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1405212458
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.86 x 0.28 x 11.69 inches