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Beware the bizarre jungle drums that signaled Death!

After a boring stint in the army George "Dune" Duncan, Frank Nankivell, and Bob Mariston of the United States Infantry were looking for some new excitement. And Mariston knew just the man to help them out--soldier of fortune and revolutionary upstart, Ray Willis. Two years earlier Willis had stumbled upon a dying man in the jungle who muttered undecipherable phrases. From this human wreck Willis took an odd but beautiful, jewel-encrusted knife, but the sound of nearby war drums had sent him fleeing from the jungle.

Now, two years later, and armed with the strength of his three new stalwart companions, Willis returned to the jungle in search of further lost treasure. But what they found there was a fantastic creature guarding the gates to a forgotten city of super-science--a city that was home to a mysterious race of ancient people who were so steeped in social inequity that the slightest social rumble would lead to a bloody revolt!

Troyana was a fantastic, scientific super city that had been lost to the rest of the world for centuries. It lay hidden in the wildest, steamiest part of the Brazilian jungle in an area cryptically known as "Tierra Prohibitiva." But Troyana had finally been rediscovered by four fortune-hunting Americans.

American Frank Nankivell was bound and determined to leave Troyana with a secret and precious piece of human cargo--Estha, the Troyanan beauty whose love he could not live without. But when Estha was captured by the disciples of a fanatical revolutionary, Nankivell's plans to return to the outside world with his three pals came to a screeching halt. With grim determination, Nankivell set off to reenter the city--alone. But Troyana was now a citadel in turmoil and little did Nankivell know that he would soon stumble upon a forbidden secret hidden deep within its catacombs--a secret so astounding that it might well portend doom not only for Nankivell and his lost love, but for Troyana itself.