Allan Quatermain is the second novel and fourth overall story in the eighteen-part series of the same name, though chronologically it is the final entry.
[2] At the beginning of the book, Allan Quatermain's only son has died and he longs to get back into the wilderness.
He persuades Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umslopogaas to accompany him, and they set out from the coast of east Africa into the territory of the Maasai.
Together with Nyleptha's rejection of the nobleman Nasta, the lord of a highland domain, a civil war breaks out.
Umslopogaas and one loyal warrior manage to save her by defending the main doorway of the palace, while killing the attackers including Nasta and the chief priest Agon, although both are mortally wounded.