Massarde decides to send them to Tebezza, a secret gold mine shared with General Kazim, where prisoners dig for gold under appalling conditions. Massarde's security guards, but not before they discover that the processing facility is just a disguise for an underground waste dump sitting right above an underground river, which flows under the sand to the Niger. They hide the car and sneak into the facility, only to be captured by Mr. En route to the detoxification facility, Pitt and Giordino run into an American nomad who is searching for a supposed sunken Civil War ironclad. They drive the Voisin north, into the desert, toward the chemical waste processing facility Fort Foureau, the only facility that could possibly leak the pollutant into the river. Here they find (and steal) General Kazim's ancient car, an Avions Voisin. Massarde's helicopter, which they fly north to Bourem, dumping the chopper in the river. A UN rescue team picks Gunn up at the airport.Īfter some interrogation at the houseboat, Pitt and Giordino manage to steal Mr.
On his yacht, they manage to contact Admiral Sandecker about Gunn's escape before being captured by Massarde. After dropping Gunn off to make a run for the Gao airport, Pitt and Giordino let the yacht self-destruct after jumping overboard and swimming to the houseboat of the ruthless French businessman Yves Massarde. They identify the pollutant, and at last find the spot where it appears in the river-but there is no chemical facility in the vicinity, and in fact no sign of anything entering the river.īy now, the Malian armed forces are on their way, along with the Malian dictator General Zateb Kazim, who wishes to seize the yacht for his own use. The cruise is all well until reaching Benin, where they are forced to engage the Benin navy, which is completely destroyed. They do this aboard the Calliope, a high-performance super-yacht, equipped with comprehensive scientific laboratories, several weapon systems, and an array of communication equipment. The growth speed is suspected to be fueled by some type of pollutant.ĭirk, Al and Rudi Gunn are ordered to cruise up the Niger River to search for the pollutant, and determine where it enters the river. There they are informed by their boss, Admiral James Sandecker, of an algal bloom, in this case a red tide, that is growing unnaturally fast, and threatens to consume the world's oxygen supply and extinguish almost all life. At the same time, Pitt and his best friend Al Giordino are hurriedly flown to a research vessel outside the coast of Nigeria. Shortly thereafter, Eva flies to Mali with an international team of scientists to investigate a mysterious disease that has been reported from various desert villages. Eva Rojas, a scientist working for the World Health Organization, from a mysterious attacker. Meanwhile, working in Egypt on an archaeological mapping of the Nile, Dirk Pitt is able to rescue Dr. Only the tour guide escapes with his life. They find it is unusually deserted, and as they are refreshing themselves at the village well they are attacked by red-eyed savages who kill and eat them. In 1996, a convoy of tourists are crossing the Sahara on a fleet of Land Rovers when they reach a scheduled stop at a village in the country of Mali. A search is launched, but she is never found. She manages to touch down on level ground, but the plane reaches the edge of a ravine and tips over.
A sand storm fouls her carburetors and she is forced to land in the desert. In 1931, Kitty Mannock is flying over the Sahara in quest of a new aviation record. The ship gets under way and is battered by the Union navy while trying to run the blockade, until Tombs brings the prisoner onto the deck, and the Union soldiers stop firing and salute. Tombs is shocked when the prisoner arrives under heavy guard with Confederate soldiers in Union uniforms - a prisoner who appears to be Abraham Lincoln. At the last minute the secretary of the Confederate navy and an admiral arrive and mention that he will be taking a prisoner on board. The ship's captain, Mason Tombs, has been ordered to take the ship past a Union blockade and to any neutral harbor where she should dock until summoned by a courier. Lee, the Confederate Navy ship CSS Texas is being loaded at a dock with crates supposedly filled with documents. In 1865, a week before the surrender of Confederate forces of Robert E. The 2005 film Sahara was based on the novel. It is the eleventh book in Cussler's Dirk Pitt series.
Sahara is a 1992 adventure novel by Clive Cussler.
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