num_pages: 656
description: 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!
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Sahara
titlecomplete: Sahara (Dirk Pitt, #11)
characters: Al Giordino, Dirk Pitt
genres: Adventure, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Suspense, Africa, Thriller, Action, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 58384
places: North Africa, Sahara Desert, Middle East, Egypt, West Africa, Mali
series: Dirk Pitt
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize 日本冒険小説協会大賞特別賞
category: Best Translated Novel
publisher: Plaza y Janes