Sahara

Description

The eleventh classic Dirk Pitt novel, where the adventurer is drawn to a secret in the burning African desert, which could destroy all life in the world's seas. A CREEPING RED TIDE OF DEATH Deep in the African desert, Dirk Pitt discovers that a top secret scientific installation is leaking a lethal chemical into the rivers, threatening to kill thousands of people - and to destroy all life in the world's seas. To warn the world of the catastrophe, Pitt must escape capture and death at the hands of a ruthless West African dictator and French industrialist, and undertake a long, perilous journey across the merciless Sahara...

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.

'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