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Nobody can beat Clive Cussler, nobody… goes one famous review of Clive Cussler. Cussler lives up to his reputation yet again in his novel “Sahara” first published in 2005.
The adventure begins when NUMA agent Dirk Pitt, Cussler’s hero in most of his books travels to the Sahara in search of an old ironclad that dates back to the American Civil War. True to all Cussler novels, a mystery unravels enroute, this time when a stunning woman tells him about a plague affecting local residents in the Sahara.
The plot twists as Dirk finds a corporation is behind the illnesses and a growing red algae outbreak. On trying to thwart the, Pits gets on the wrong side of an evil African dictator and a French business tycoon and lands up in a desert concentration camp where many supposedly dead engineers are forced to toil in an underground quarry that leads to the red algae bloom.
Trying to make his escape, Pitt finds a mysterious airplane in the desert that turns out to be part of legend, but before nearly encountering death. Dirk and his gang of NUMA scientists daringly try to find a way to save the local people, find the lost ship and get out of Africa alive.
The story moves from horrifying biological tragedies to the mystery of the lost pilot in the middle of a desert, President Abraham Lincoln, and finally to the terrible prison camp and Clive Cussler’s most powerful battle ever!