Kidnapped. Shipwrecked. Left for dead on an African shore with nothing but the jungle and the beasts who once raised him. The third Tarzan novel opens in the ballrooms of London where the ape-man chafes under the weight of his hereditary title, but peace shatters when his archenemy, the treacherous Russian count Nikolas Rokoff, escapes prison with a singular obsession: destroy Lord Greystoke. When Rokoff steals Tarzan's infant son Jack and lures the jungle lord into a deadly trap aboard a ship bound for Africa, Tarzan must watch his family dragged into the darkness while he himself is cast away on a hostile island. But Tarzan was not raised in parlors. He was raised by Mangani, and the wild calls to him still. What follows is a pulse-pounding rescue mission through cannibal territory, crocodile-infested rivers, and the African interior, where Tarzan must become the beast once more to save his son from a fate worse than death. Burroughs at his pulpy best: muscular prose, relentless stakes, and the eternal question of whether civilization can ever truly tame the wild.
