Sahara Adventure Series
READING AGE 4+
6. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - DEATH AT SUNRISE
Together for the first time, the five comrades of the French Foreign Legion - Teuns Stegmann, Fritz Mundt, Jack Ritchie, Podolski the Pole, and Petacci the Italian - embarked on a patrol mission in the formidable Sahara desert when a lethal sandstorm suddenly engulfed them. Their chances of survival in the barren wasteland seemed bleak until they spotted two camels racing through the sand, which they decided to pursue. Finally, they reached one of the three clay huts in an unknown oasis before the storm unleashed its full fury. However, what they stumbled upon inside the hut shocked them to their core and put their lives in peril.
As the sandstorm had deposited tons of sand over the oasis’s water source, the men were stranded without water and facing a slow, agonizing death. Nonetheless, they resolved to remain there until their last breath. Just then, a bomber plane appeared out of nowhere, and the five friends were taken captive by the soldiers aboard and transported to Dutra. There, they were thrown into a dungeon and stumbled upon something extraordinary hidden beneath the hay in their cell that rekindled their hope. But could they make use of it before it was too late?
Brigitte Bonnet was still seeking revenge for her sister El Karima’s death, and she and her sheiks had decided on a fitting punishment for the legionnaires. They planned to execute them by beheading them with a ceremonial sword in front of all the tribes that had assembled on that momentous day.
Despite the overwhelming odds, the Legion men were determined to devise an escape plan. However, their situation appeared hopeless. Then, as the execution began, a sudden, random shot rang out, causing a commotion in the crowd and temporarily suspending the proceedings. In the dungeon, a man who owed the French Foreign Legion a significant favor in the past arrived and regaled them with an incredible tale that was difficult to fathom. Faced with limited options, the five friends acquiesced and cooperated with him, leading to a fortuitous escape and the acquisition of deadly gas rifles. Nevertheless, the Dulac stronghold in the Atlas Mountains was swarming with hostile Arabs, and the bomber plane still posed a significant threat.
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Ritchie turns the plane around ponderously at the edge of the strip, and luckily for them, there is no wind, so it does not matter from which side of the strip they take off. He pulls back the throttle some more. The drone is like a hurricane in their ears. The plane shakes and shudders. Louder and louder, as if the world is coming to an end. Ca……
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