When the American bomber crashed in the jungle of enemy-held Sumatra, the survivors faced the perils of a completely unknown world... and the RAF colonel who had flown with them as observer seemed to compound their danger by going mad - striping to a loincloth and throwing away his weapons except for his knife. But for Colonel John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, the hazards of wild beasts and a remorseless enemy ware a familiar and joyously accepted challenge - a chance to return to his true identity of Tarzan of the Apes. Gathering a motley crew of allies of many nations, Tarzan worked a terrible vengeance on the occupying Japanese, led an epic trek to the coast - to a final ocean rendezvous with enemies human and inhuman.