After the dreadful battle which ended with the obliteration of the religion of Issus, John Carter's wife and two other women were locked in a gradually spinning prison attached to the Temple of the Sun, each of whose cells are only open to the outside world once every year. Meanwhile, Carter's friend Xodar has become the new king of the black Martian First Born, and those white Martian therns who reject the old religion likewise gain a new leader. Carter discovers that a First Born named Thurid knows the secret of the Temple of the Sun and he and Matai Shang want to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter Phaidor, who has been confined with Dejah Thoris...
Science-fiction et fantastique