When Fergus Reith agree to act as tour guide for the famed palaeontologist Dr Aristide Marot, little does he realise that the search for the elusive Ozymandias will uncover spectacular riches, ruthless adversaries - and his former wife, the seductive Dr. Alicia Dyckman! Caught in a bloody civil was, the three adventurers must fight or face death by boiling in the Cauldron of Repentance! The secrets of the planet Krishna continue to unfold in L. Sprague de Camp's latest tale of mystery, treachery and romance.
Krishna is to de Camp as Barsoom is To Burroughs--a planet big enough and strange enough to sire a series of action yarns, in which an Earthborn hero blunders, muscles, and connives his way through adventure after adventure! --Analog
[The Krishna novels] contain a blend of intelligent, exotic adventure and wry humor characteristic of Sprague de Camp's better work. --The Science Fiction Encyclopedia