Sahara

Dirk Pitt, Book 11

By: Clive Cussler

Narrated by: Scott Brick

A Sunday Times best seller.

The 11th classic Dirk Pitt novel, where the adventurer is drawn to a secret in the burning African desert, which could destroy all life in the world's seas.

Deep in the African desert, Dirk Pitt discovers that a top secret scientific installation is leaking a lethal chemical into the rivers, threatening to kill thousands of people - and to destroy all life in the world's seas.

To warn the world of the catastrophe, Pitt must escape capture and death at the hands of a ruthless West African dictator and French industrialist and undertake a long, perilous journey across the merciless Sahara....

©2019 Clive Cussler (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"Clive Cussler is the guy I read." (Tom Clancy)

"Cussler is hard to beat." (Daily Mail)

"The Adventure King." (Daily Express)

The best Cussler

I've read many of the Clive Cussler books and this is by far the best of the bunch.

Good Read

It's Dirk Pitt, so if you like Clive Cussler, you will be entertained. If I had any criticism, it would perhaps be that the multiple storylines in this one were a bit too much, but it wasn't really off-putting. I like it when the good guys win and that's what they do here.

Great Story

So well written and executed was hard to separate history from myth. Scott Brick is superb and, of course, the old prospector Clive gives nothing but the best.

BETTER THAN THE MOVIE

if you like the movie, you'll love the book.
Parts of the book were abstracted and adjusted for a movie to run in a normal time slot.

I'm 3/4 through SAHARA but had to say my bit.

You'll be glad you read the book, or listen to it. I wish they would have made a 6 or more part mini series.
I've listened to over 700 books and a lot of great Clive Cussler stories.
I almost skipped over this book and I'm glad I didn't.

Long but worth it!

It took awhile to listen to the whole book but it’s well worth it for the entire storyline. So many twists and turns!

Bad narration

Good story, but huge cringe worthy moments of terrible dialog.

Worst was the narrator for some reason giving a female character from CALIFORNIA an Antonio Banderas accent. Seriously, not cool.

Oh, and every European accent will be German, no matter what country the character is from.

This narrator is horrible and has ruined this audiobook. The Cussler audiobooks had a different, less cheesy narrator at one time. They should just reissue those versions.

Favourite of all of Cussler’s books

Favourite of all of Cussler’s books - loved it when I read it years ago, and loved listening to it.
Not all of his books held up under a re-visit, but Sahara did. Not even the horrible movie adaptation ruined it for me (Steve Zaharia as Al Giordino??? Are you kidding me).
I only slightly rolled my eyes at the gall of Cussler writing himself into the book as a pivotal character.

The Sahara

wow this was an interesting twist on history. a thrilling ride into a vast unknown with different plot twists. a lot of fun and a race to the finish.

Awesome Listen!

Sahara by Clive Cussler is a great book. I believe that this audiobook is basically the same story that previously was on CD. Scott Brick is wonderful bringing the characters to life and adds the right emotions to his voice. I so enjoyed this book

Awesome

Brick is the best! I have listened to authors I’ve never heard of because Scott was the reader. I’ve never been disappointed!