Tarzan and the Forbidden City

Burroughs obviously was getting really sick of the Tarzan series because he didn't try to cover up some faux pas in his story, and there were a couple of hard leaps for the imagination to make. There are two groups of men who want to get the Father of Diamonds in the midst of the ForbiDDEN CITY, and who variously capture or are captured by each other. Lady Kath at one point when told she would probably be killed, says: "I wish they would do it and get it over withy. I am so tired." She ought to be. She had been stranded, found, captured, rescued, captured again, and rescued again and faced death atg least five tgimes before we end the book. Onje wag has said, a work of art is over when the artist says it is and we can just see ERB at his desk saying: "Okay. I'm not even bothering to get them out of the jujngle. Let's tie up the ends and throw it to the press." ( )

Tarzan's old friend, Paul D'Arnot, asks his help to rescue a lost friend in the jungle. Their quest leads them to an underwater temple, deep in a crater lake, where priests protect a fabulous diamond that has caused war between two cities, and has the ability to cloud men's minds. ( )

Tarzan almost loses his life in the strangest temple he has ever visited – an underwater building, deep in a crater lake – where priests protect the fabulous diamond that has caused war between Thobos and Ashair.