Sahara (Dirk Pitt #11)
Sahara (Dirk Pitt #11)
Author: Clive Cussler
Desc: 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!