The Warlord of Mars

The Warlord of Mars completes the story begun in A Princess of Mars and continued in The Gods of Mars, finally bringing together John Carter and his beloved Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. Carter last saw his beloved in the Temple of the Sun of the Holy Therns, with the blade of Phaidor descending toward her heart. But the exiled leader of the Therns has rescued his daughter and now wants revenge on Carter for exposing his evil cult.