Desmond Bagley · 1978 · survival

Desmond Bagley's 1978 adventure. Security man Max Stafford is hired to find a missing accountant and discovers the man has gone to the Sahara to search for his father's aircraft, lost on a record flight in 1936. The hunt drags Stafford from London to Algiers, down to Tamanrasset and out into the Tanezrouft - and someone means for none of them to come back.

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   London

   Security consultant Max Stafford takes a trivial commission - find a mild accountant who has walked out of his life - and finds a man obsessed with an aircraft that vanished over the Sahara in 1936.

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   Algiers

   The trail runs to Algiers, gateway to the desert, where Stafford assembles an expedition and begins to understand that powerful people are watching him - and that his quarry's search is worth killing to prevent.

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   Tamanrasset

   At Tamanrasset in the Hoggar, the last real town before the emptiness, they load water and fuel among the Tuareg and turn west - into a country where a broken vehicle is a death sentence and the horizon never changes.

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   The Tanezrouft

   Out in the Tanezrouft, the Land of Thirst, where nothing lives and the sand runs flat to the sky, they hunt the wreck of the lost aeroplane - and find both the answer to a forty-year mystery and the men who came to bury it.