#44 in Thriller
Sahara
- 576
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Clive Cussler’s “Sahara” puts a clever, capable hero at the centre of a sprawling adventure thriller. Dirk Pitt starts on the Nile hunting treasure and ends up pitted against a billionaire industrialist and a West African tyrant, tracing an epidemic of madness to pollution that endangers the seas. The eleventh Pitt novel runs to well over five hundred pages. It suits readers who miss adventures led by one resourceful man.
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About the book
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!
Reading order · Dirk Pitt
Full order & progress →- The Mediterranean CaperStart here
7.47.4 / 10 - Iceberg
7.67.6 / 10 - Raise the Titanic!
7.77.7 / 10 - Vixen 03
7.87.8 / 10 - Night Probe!
7.77.7 / 10 - Pacific Vortex!
7.67.6 / 10 - Deep Six
7.87.8 / 10 - Cyclops
7.87.8 / 10 - Treasure
7.87.8 / 10 - Dragon
–Not ranked yet - SaharaThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Inca Gold
7.87.8 / 10 - Shock Wave
–Not ranked yet - Flood Tide
7.57.5 / 10 - Atlantis Found
7.77.7 / 10 - Valhalla Rising
7.67.6 / 10 - Trojan OdysseyTrojan Odyssey–Not ranked yet
- Black Wind
7.67.6 / 10 - Treasure of Khan
–Not ranked yet - Arctic Drift
–Not ranked yet - Crescent Dawn
–Not ranked yet - Poseidon's Arrow
–Not ranked yet - Havana Storm
–Not ranked yet - Odessa Sea
–Not ranked yet - Celtic Empire
–Not ranked yet - Clive Cussler's The Devil's SeaClive Cussler's The Devil's Sea–Not ranked yet
- Clive Cussler's The Corsican ShadowClive Cussler's The Corsican Shadow–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 132 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.9 | 32 | 24% |
| Google Books | 7.0 | 8 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 92 | 70% |
Frequently asked
How long is Sahara?
It has 576 pages — longer than 87% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Thriller — with scores between 7.7 and 7.8, closest to this book.
