| 1996, Egypt: Search 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 enviromental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrailist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the searching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves an uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries--the fate of a Civil War ironclad and it's 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! |
