Prisoners of the Sun

Prisoners of the Sun (originally Le Temple du Soleil) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

Prisoners of the Sun is the fourteenth in the series. It continues the story begun in The Seven Crystal Balls.

The storyline

Tintin and the captain go to Peru in South America to look for Professor Calculus, who has been kidnapped because he put on the Inca Rascar Capac's bracelet. After an eventful trip involving Tintin nearly being thrown off the side of a cliff from a runaway railway coach, they end up meeting a small Indian boy who helps them find the entrance to the Temple of the Sun, a place in the mountains where a splinter group of Incas reside in solitude. They find Calculus is to be sacrificed for putting on the bracelet, and they work out a plan involving a solar eclipse to stop it from happening. Afterwards, the leader of the Incas tells them the "magic liquid" mentioned in the preceding volume was a coca-derivative used to hypnotize the explorers as a method of punishment, as the Incas believed they were commiting sacrilege.