Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs

The game was up.\n That Tarzan knew.\n No longer could cunning and diplomacy usurp the functions of the weapons of defense he best loved. And so the first hideous priest who leaped to the platform was confronted by no suave ambassador from heaven,\n but rather a grim and ferocious beast whose temper savored more of hell.~~~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination.\n Tarzan the Terrible, first published in 1921, is considered by devotees one of the best of Burroughs' tales of the ape-man.\n Here, Tarzan sets off to rescue his beloved Jane, kidnapped by L