LC P. (smallorder) reviewed on 3/19/2007 + 67 more book reviews

1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pett thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful UN scientist investigating a disease that is driving throusands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that thratens 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 guantlet 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 assisantion, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot. Pitt will make a desperate stand in a battle the world cannot afford to lose.

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