Breck Eisner · 2005 · river

Breck Eisner's 2005 adventure from Clive Cussler's novel. Salvage hunter Dirk Pitt, chasing a Confederate ironclad lost since 1865, sails from Lagos and pushes up the Niger River into war-torn Mali with a WHO doctor tracing a deadly plague to its source. River gives way to desert as the trail leads to a hidden toxin plant and a warship buried in the Saharan sand.

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   Lagos

   Working a salvage off Nigeria, Dirk Pitt buys a rare Confederate gold coin dredged from the Niger, and takes it as proof the lost ironclad Texas somehow reached West Africa.

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   Gao

   Pitt gives a WHO doctor passage upriver into Mali, where a civil war rages and a strange sickness is killing whole villages along the water; the trail leads inland from the river.

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   The Malian Sahara

   In the Saharan waste a dry riverbed and a warlord's toxic plant hide the wreck of the Texas, run aground a century before when the river that carried it dwindled to sand.