The treacherous Lord Greystoke arrives at the logger’s camp in the Congo, and will stop at nothing to find and assassinate his long-lost cousin, Tarzan. Robbie and Jane set out through the jungle to warn Tarzan, and find themselves trapped in the sprawling ancient city of Opar, where the insane Queen La rules an army of man-eating apes. With a volcano threatening to explode, Tarzan, Robbie, and Jane must form an unlikely alliance to save themselves. Not everyone will make it out alive.
- Fans of the original Tarzan books, movies, and comics
- Middle-grade fans of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels
In the third book in the Tarzan series, the treacherous Lord Greystoke arrives at the logger's camp in the Congo, and will stop at nothing to find and assassinate his long-lost cousin, Tarzan. Robbie and Jane set out through the jungle to warn Tarzan, and find themselves trapped in the sprawling ancient city of Opar, where the insane Queen La runs an illegal coltan mine. With a volcano threatening to explode, Tarzan, Robbie, and Jane must form an unlikely alliance to save themselves. Not everyone will make it out alive.
Andy Briggs is a British author and screenwriter. He created the Hero.com series and the Villain.net anti-series for Oxford University Publishing, which have now been published around the world.
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s publication of the first Tarzan story—and now Andy Briggs breathes new life into the legendary hero
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