Sahara

Sahara, the eleventh Dirk Pitt adventure, plants the swashbuckling NUMA operative in the middle of Africa following the trail of a lost Confederate ironclad that may have reached the continent's interior. What begins as a historical mystery expands into a race to stop a rogue industrialist from releasing a chemical contaminant that threatens the world's oceans. Cussler writes high-adventure fiction in the tradition of vintage Saturday serials — implausible, energetic, and deeply committed to the pleasures of nonstop forward motion.

Magnus Schmitz narrates the German-edition recording with the sweeping energy Cussler's action prose demands. At just over twenty-three hours it is among the longer entries in a generous series, and Schmitz maintains the thriller's momentum through the novel's considerable geographic range — from the American Civil War era to sub-Saharan Africa and Mediterranean intrigue.