Reports spread that Tarzan is kidnapping women and attacking communities, but the culprit is an unstable impostor who claims both Tarzan’s identity and divine powers. When Sandra Pickerall is abducted, the real Tarzan follows the trail to rescue her and restore his name.
The manuscript belongs to the late colonial world of Tarzan's later adventures, where isolated settlements, expeditions and European travellers still shape the surrounding setting. The impostor plot turns that familiar landscape into a story about reputation and identity, forcing Tarzan to hunt a man whose crimes are being committed in his name.
