Sahara Adventure Series
READING AGE 4+
4. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - REVENGE OF THE DESERT
A patrol of the French Foreign Legion, which had been scheduled to return, remains absent for three days beyond their anticipated arrival date. When they eventually appear at Fort Dini Salam, they are bound on horseback, subjected to brutal t*****e and mutilation, and quickly succumb to their wounds. One patrol member, a blond South African, is missing, having been captured by El Karima, the princess of the Dulacs, and taken to the capital, Dutra, to be executed on the hill of the mountain eagles. As he faces his impending death, the South African receives a reprieve from an old friend who also holds a grudge against El Karima. Before attempting to escape from Dutra, the South African, named Teuns, decides to steal the Dulac’s sacred “Sword of Dutra” from El Karima’s palace.
Meanwhile, the commanding officers at Dini Salam receive orders from the High Command in France to eliminate El Karima, who has too much French blood on her hands. Captain D’Arlan, known as the Houdini of the Sahara, proposes an ingenious plan to Colonel Le Clerq, the commanding officer at Dini Salam. Although it is risky, it is a unique strategy that the French Foreign Legion has never attempted. With only sixty men at his disposal, D’Arlan leads his soldiers into the Sahara desert to execute his plan. Although they are successful in defeating the first Dulac patrol, D’Arlan’s secret plan is so shocking that El Karima sends out five hundred Arabs to confront them. Although the Legion becomes encircled, they are not defeated. In response, El Karima herself leads two thousand Dulacs in an attempt to eliminate D’Arlan and his sixty men in the desert.
While this is happening, Teuns manages to steal the Sword of Dutra and escape, but he is subsequently recaptured. However, he escapes once more with the aid of a natural phenomenon, before finally reaching D’Arlan and his soldiers. As they face the attack from El Karima and her army of two thousand Dulacs, the Legion’s water, and ammunition begin to dwindle. In a moment of great desperation, Teuns takes matters into his own hands, doing something so unexpected and beyond belief that causes great chaos in the Sahara desert and takes everybody by surprise…
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And then, to his utter amazement and joy, he sees white kepi’s in the middle of the bloodbath. They appear like white mushrooms in the heart of this unbelievable c*****e of maimed and dying men and the horses that had already died the day before. He pushes his horse into a trot and goes over there. He does not notice the long, white veil lying t……
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