Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3)

The frozen north holds secrets that could swallow the world. Eric John Stark, the feral warrior-legends call the Black Amazon of Mars, has touched an ancient relic and seen through dead eyes something that should have stayed buried: the Old Martians, beautiful and incomprehensibly evil, imprisoned in the ice beyond the Gates of Death for eons, still alive, still plotting to reclaim their dying world. Now the artifact must be returned to Kushat, the fortress-city that stands guard over that frozen horror, and Stark must warn its people of an outlaw army marching to destroy them. But between here and the frozen north lies a wasteland of roving death-dealers, and Stark has been captured by the most ruthless of them all. What follows is a brutal test of will and steel, as a man who was once a tortured child on Earth must become the legend Mars made him. Brackett delivers pulsing pulp adventure where sword and laser cut through ancient sorcery, and one hard man stands between humanity and the ice.