Tic-Tac-Terror

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name = Tic-Tac-Terror
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author = Franklin W. Dixon
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country = United States
language = English
series = Hardy Boys
genre = Detective, Mystery novel
publisher = Wanderer Books
release_date = 1982
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 201 pp (first edition paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-671-42357-6 (first edition paperback)
preceded_by = The Billion Dollar Ransom
followed_by = Trapped At Sea

"Tic-Tac-Terror" is the title of a Hardy Boys Digest novel, written by Franklin W. Dixon. Sometimes it goes by the number of 74 in the series, a continuation of the original novels, and sometimes as the 16th, as it is the 16th published by Simon & Schuster after Grosset & Dunlap lost rights to publish new Hardy Boys books in 1979.

Plot summary

The two young detectives solve a mystery involving a top secret government agency and a world-famous spy who wishes to defect to America.