The peace John Carter brought to Helium and Thark is new and fragile. On
the eve of a Red & Green festival to balm age-old hatreds, Dejah Thoris
is kidnapped. The ordeal triggers her lingering nightmares of abuse and
helplessness at the hands of brutal Tharks. And the kidnapper is
nightmare personified: Voro. He caters to a taste some green men never
lost: the red meat of Helium women.