GENTLEMAN OF VIRGINIA. WARLORD OF MARS. Captain John Carter thought his days as a fighter were over. The South had lost the Civil War, and as a soldier now without a battle to fight or a cause to believe in, he journeyed west in search of a new life. Yet not even Carter could have expected that his new life would begin with his death in the Arizona desert, and his inexplicable arrival on the planet Mars. Or that he would find love in the eyes of the beauteous Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium. A prisoner of the giant, green-skinned warrior race called the Tharks, Dejah Thoris is meant to be used as a pawn in the ongoing war between the Tharks and her people, the red Martians-unless the gentleman from Virginia takes sword in hand to free her . . . and thus unite a divided world. Once more, John Carter has a cause to fight for-and this time, a love to win, as well. . . .