Sahara - Clive Cussler

...the harsh climate of the Sahara and it surrounding areas, with a twist at the end that rivals any great work. With Cusslers novels, the protagonist Dirk Pitt is very much a spectacle of Cusslers ambitions, fantasies and experiences. Cussler himself plays a cameo role in nearly all his works which more often than not ends with some key advice and a vintage car for Pitt's collection. Of course, this is a lot of Cusslers personality seeping into the ...
...history as we know it. Sahara is no different, with a surprise at the end with would turn American politics upside down (if it isn't already). I am personally a big fan of the locations Cussler bases his stories, with Sahara being predominantly based in Northern Africa. While Inca Gold, another favorite, is based in the tropical rainforests of South America and my personal favorite 'Mayday' (AKA 'Mediterranean Caper') which was Cusslers first Dirk ...

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Review of Sahara - Clive Cussler

...only read Raise The Titanic. Sahara is yet another in Cussler’s Dirk Pitt novels and an even more entertaining one than usual. In fact, Cussler has such a unrestrainably fun time writing this one that he makes himself a minor miner character who shows up to impart some vital information to our heroes! I adore such writers. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has also done this, but can you think of any other writer? Tick, tock, tick, tock…Time’s up! If you haven’t ...
...sunken ships in 1992 when Sahara was published, Cussler writes with authority and passion of his hero’s similar exploits, but while that is entertaining, even more so is when he goes beyond credulity and reminds us that this is only a novel. His world is a stage where the bad guys are of the utmost evil and the good guys are akin to comic book superheroes at the ready to humiliate and destroy the scum and create a safer world to live in. But even ...

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Review of Sahara - Clive Cussler

...in the middle of the sahara desert which is causing pollution and a 'red tide' of algae which is growing and using up all the oxygen, if it continues to grow everyone on earth will suffocate. In true Cussler style other smaller sub-plots are also woven into this general theme and they all come together so suddenly to see all the threads making a pattern. What I like about this novel is that the threat is very original and yet very real, no nuclear ...
...on the brink of hurting everyone through their short sighteness. I also like the mixture of real like and fiction which leaves you with a sense of 'what if..' about some of the information. This was also the first time Cussler put himself into a novel and recently it has become something of his trademark. The action scenes are very descriptive and entertaining, especially the alamo style fight in the climax and the heroic escape across the desert. ...

pdoyle007 06.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Sahara - Clive Cussler

...takes them off to the sahara desert, where they find all sorts of ancient misteries which have been caught up in the dry sands of the desert for years. I won't go into explaining the book to you as I wouldn't want to ruin it, but for me the book also made me think about human morals, and civilisation as a whole. basically, there are parts in the novel that reveal inhumaine activities, which for me made it even more satisfying when the book came to ...
...those books which I just couldn't put down once I was about one hundred pages into it. And i will recommend it to all those people who like action and adventure stories. Dirk Pitt is basically like your average movie star like Bruce Willis for example. He is a real fictional hero. However you musn't be put off by the start of the book which did get a little confusing. But all is revealed. ...

JSPorter 15.09.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Sahara - Clive Cussler

...likes happy endings in sahara the plot is up to his normal standard can happen in this day and age, his side kick allways on hand to help him out , some people says no one gets hurt but dick shows when he is deep under ground and trapped that he can be ruthless and bad when he locks in one of the villians in a cave with nothing but bones of people he killed he has avery good sense of justice this book is for all ages and sexes ...

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Review of Sahara - Clive Cussler