Professor Calculus has been kidnapped! Together, Tintin and a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission, braving runaway train carriages, yellow fever and terrible avalanches. But most daunting of all is the inscrutable Inca tribe and their ancient, mystifying beliefs...

The Arumbaya fetish has been stolen! But with the help of a talking parrot, Tintin is soon on the hunt for the famous artefact. He must solve a murder, dash through a revolution and discover the true value of the fetish because he is not the only one on the trail...

Bianca Castafiore has been imprisoned by General Tapioca! Also accused of threatening Tapioca's dictatorship, Tintin, Calculus and Haddock jet off to the jungle HQ of the revolutionaries, and hatch a plot surrounding the upcoming carnival and Haddock's sudden and mysterious disgust for whisky...