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This Ace edition follows the text of the first hard-cover
book edition, originally published in 1929.
Cover art and title page illustration by Roy Krenkel, Jr.
To Joan Burroughs Pierce II
Edgar Rice Burroughs available in Ace Books:
AT THE EARTH'S CORE (F-156)
THE MOON MAID (F-157)
PELLUCIDAR (F-158)
THE MOON MEN (F-159)
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (F-168)
TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE (F-169)
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (F-170)
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Jason Gridley is a radio bug. Had he not been, this story never wouldhave been written. Jason is twenty-three and scandalously goodlooking—too good looking to be a bug of any sort. As a matter of fact,he does not seem buggish at all—just a normal, sane, young American, whoknows a great deal about many things in addition to radio; aeronautics,for example, and golf, and tennis, and polo.
But this is not Jason’s story—he is only an incident—an importantincident in my life that made this