The jungle made him Tarzan. Civilization demands he be someone else. After years in the African wilderness, the ape man returns to Europe, land of silken suits and social masks, only to find that the savagery there wears finer clothing. Hidden identity, dangerous romance, and a villainous Russian countess with a scheming brother all conspire to trap him. Tarzan deliberately conceals his birthright as English lord, convinced his cousin would make a superior noble and more fitting husband for Jane. But when Rokoff's web of deception tightens, the jungle honed predator emerges. Burroughs captures something primal in this sequel: the tension between what we are born into and what we become, between the beast within and the society without. The action crackles aboard ship and through Parisian streets, but the real adventure is internal, a man caught between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.
