The Mastermind of Mars Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs Ulysses Paxton, U.S.A., awakened from a battlefield in France to find himself the prisoner of the strangest super-scientist of a strange planet. Paxton, it seemed, was valuable to that master mind as an apprentice because he would have no loyalties to interfere with the work he was called to do. — For Ras Thavas' weird experiments involved trans... more »planting the brains of ape and man, and of beauty and hag. But Paxton was an Earthman similar to John Carter, the Warlord of Barsoom, and Paxton realized that he had to undo the evil he had helped to create.
The story of Paxton's fight to right the wrong done to a lovely woman is a Burroughs Mars novel that ranks with the best.« less