A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

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A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS

This Ace edition follows the text of the first
hard-cover book edition, originally published in 1931.

Cover art and title page illustration by Roy Krenkel, Jr.

Printed in U.S.A.

AN UNSEEN FOE STRIKES AGAINST JOHN CARTER

Under the double moons of Barsoom, an invisible flier sped to themysterious city of Jahar where Sanoma Tora, the kidnapped princess ofHelium had been taken. Hadron of Hastor was at the controls, hatchinga rescue plan that required unusual daring and great ingenuity. Forinvisibility alone was not a great enough weapon against "The Death."

And should Hadron succeed, what fate would await him at the hands ofthe madman whose very genius had created the means of that rescue?

A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS is the exciting story of Martian adventureas transmitted by Ulysses Paxton on Mars to Edgar Rice Burroughs inTarzana, by means of Pellucidar's Gridley Wave.

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