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Sahara opens with a scene from the past: the last days of the Civil War. An ironclad ship carrying the Confederate treasury battles past a Union blockade and disappears into the fog...While searching for Confederate gold coins that have mysteriously materialized in Nigeria, Numa agent and master explorer, Dirk Pitt, thwarts the attempted assassination of beautiful U.N. scientist, Dr. Eva Rojas. Her team is investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Pitt amd his long-time partner, Al Giordino, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, supplied to them by their boss Admiral Sandecker, join Eva's quest to save the world from environmental catastrophe. Traveling up the Niger River, Dirk discovers the shocking secret behind the disease and becomes the target of a billionaire industrialist, Massarde, a ruthless West African general, Kazim. In the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, pitt uncover the truth behind two historical mysteries before he discovers the source of the toxin and, with the aid of a Dogon warrior tribe, take a desperate last stand - in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!