TARZAN IN PERIL - "VIVID!" GORE VIDAL When Tarzan returns to Opar for treasures buried beneath ancient city, he is injured during an earthquake and loses his memory. The ape man remembers nothing since his teenage years in the jungle. While Jane fights off drunken soldiers and dangerous enemies, confident her jungle knight will soon be there to rescue her, Tarzan has forgotten her existence and fallen prey to his old nemesis, La, high priestess of Opar, and must either wed her or die a sacrifice to the Flaming God. The only person who knows the truth is the evil Lieutenant Albert Werper, drunk with greed after a glimpse of Opar's fabled treasure vaults, who conspires with slave trader Achmet Zek to betray both Tarzan and Jane to their dooms that he may possess the Jewels of Opar. Burroughs possesses "a gift few writers possess the ability to describe … vividly." (Gore Vidal)