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This is Howard's take on an Edgar Rice Burroughs style of planetary romance. Esau Cairn is a man too strong and brutal for our world. So in escaping a trumped up murder charge he mangages to get teleported to a hell-hole of a planet where he has to battle for survival every inch of the way against nature, monsters and his fellow (cave)man and loves every minute of it.
The humanoid inhabitants of this world are straight out of Tarzan's Opar. The men are brutish Troglodites and the women are barely clad Euro-Babes. In their society Esau wins honor, love and friendship by beating people half to death!
The main baddies, the winged humanoid "Yagga", are such sick evil puppies that they prove to be worthy recipients of Cairns unrestrained fury once he unleahses and cuts loose. Unrestrained is the word which describes this book. If you love enthusiastic brainless fun,action and adventure then this is the book for you. It fires away on all cylinders at a breakneck pace.It's not REH at his best. But mediocre REH still stands head and sholders above the rest. This is pure entertainment. And as entertainment I give it 2 thumbs up.

This is a greatly shortened version of my original review. I didn't notice that we are only allowed 2000 characters!! So go down to the "Product discussions" for the entire review.
This is Mars seen from the gutter up that has been exploited and “colonialized” by the Earth (white folks that is.). Imagine Barsoom going straight to hell after the big earth corporations show up and exploit the hell out of the place, keeping down the natives and basically treating them as 3rd class nuisances! We don’t see Mars from the eyes of its Ruling Class. We get a Mars from the perspective of its lower classes. These are people who are being screwed over by not just their own rulers but also the colonial powers from earth. LB’s Martians are cut throats, thieves and whores who we see from the context of our culture and not theirs. This is a sad, worn out, angry, brutal and cynical Mars. It’s not really a place you’d care to visit. And if you did bother to visit, the locals would cut your throat the first chance they got. This is tough, gritty and realistic SF adventure!!