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Who's read Prisoners of the Sun?  In this enthralling Tintin story our hero is captured by a group of Inca who have survived in secret.  He and Captain Haddock are sentenced to be burned alive; their pyre is to be set alight by the rays of the sun.  Tintin is allowed to choose his time of death and cleverly picks the execution to coincide with a solar eclipse.  The amazed tribesmen believe he can command the sun god and immediately set him free. This trick is not entirely