Sahara (Dirk Pitt Adventure) - Softcover

Cussler, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743497198 ISBN 13: 9780743497190

Publisher: Pocket Star, 2004

Synopsis

1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries -- the fate of a Civil War ironclad and its secret connection with Lincoln's assassination, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot....Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, DIRK PITT will make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!

About this title

Review:

‘Clive Cussler is the guy I read’ TOM CLANCY

‘The ultimate Dirk Pitt tale. Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler, America’s finest adventure writer’ STEPHEN COONTS

‘Gripping...Dirk Pitt is one the best adventure heroes around’ Today

‘Dirk Pitt has never been more entertaining. An ecological thriller with sideshows, and the most imaginative escapes and close calls’ New York Daily News

About the Author:

Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California, and attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting. Now a full-time bestselling author, he has also explored the deserts of the American Southwest in search of lost gold mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for lost aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743497198
• ISBN 13: 9780743497190
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 568