After a long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars - an Eden from which none ever escaped alive. "The other apes were upon me now-but my act had heartened the prisoners, and the cages vomited forth their inmates hot with the lust to kill-doomed men dedicated to revenge upon Issus!"