Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed By Clive Cussler with Craig ...

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Once again, Clive makes the stakes high with a tale set in Africa. InSahara , published in 1992 in
hardcover and July 1993 in paperback by Pocket Books, the menace is an environmental catastrophe
that could wipe out all life in the ocean and perhaps even on land.
Clive begins the novel in the past. Near the end of the Civil War, a Confederate ironclad named the
Texas leaves Richmond carrying part of the Confederate treasury and the kidnapped Union president,
Abraham Lincoln. Next, we have a pioneer female aviator, Kitty Mannock, who crashes her plane in
Africa. Her disappearance remains one of aviation's great mysteries.
Traveling to the current time, a tourist safari in Africa is attacked by villagers who we later learn have
been exposed to chemicals in their water that make them mad. The entire group of tourists is killed and
cannabalized. Pitt's love interest, Eva Rojas, is a scientist with the World Health Organization who is
searching for the source of toxic poison in Africa. Pitt rescues her from an attempted rape and murder by
killing the attackers.
Sandecker then assigns Pitt, Giordino and Gunn to find the source of the poisons. To aid them in their
task, they are given the use of a high-tech boat named the Calliope and sent up the Niger River.
We learn that the villains of the novel, Yves Massarde, a French industrialist, and Zateb Kazim, an evil
general and the true head of the country of Mali, are partners in a hazardous-waste treatment facility in
the Sahara Desert. On the Calliope, Gunn escapes with the water samples to the airport in Mali, while
Pitt and Giordino rig the Calliope to explode and swim to Massarde's houseboat, where they are
captured.
Next, the UN World Health Organization scientists assigned to locate the poisons are captured and
taken to a gold mine named Tebezza. At Tebezza, the gold is mined by convicts and slaves. Pitt and
Giordino escape from Massarde's houseboat by stealing a helicopter, then ditching the helicopter in the
Niger River near a town named Bourem.
There they steal Kazim's classic car and take off into the desert.
Clive makes his appearance as a prospector named "The Kid," who is searching for the Texas, which
he believes is hidden somewhere in the desert. After that, Pitt and Giordmo make their way to
Massarde's hazardous-waste facility, named Fort Foureau, where they are captured.