Sahara Adventure Series

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3. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - THE SCARLET RIDERS



Captain D’Arlan of the French Foreign Legion, along with twenty of his handpicked soldiers, sets out on a mission to bestow a medal upon an old Arab residing in the Sahara desert. The reason being that the Arab tribe has been maintaining peaceful relations with the Foreign Legion for over seven decades. However, on their way, they witness a caravan of camels being attacked by a contingent of one hundred and fifty Legion soldiers.


As if the mere fact that the assailants were members of the Legion was not enough, Teuns Stegmann, the blond South African serving in the Legion, discovers something from the sand that deepens the mystery even further. Upon reaching the oasis of the Arab tribe they intend to honor, they are confronted by the very Arabs they had hoped to salute, who had been attacked by the peaceful Foreign Legion soldiers, resulting in the a*******n of their young men, women, and children. Great confusion and chaos ensued, and D’Arlan decided to spend the night there before attempting to resolve the matter.


However, during the night, D’Arlan and his men are overpowered by the same Legion soldiers and taken to a secret tent village in the desert. There, they are hypnotized by a German and coerced into providing the Arabs with training on a clandestine weapon. Shortly thereafter, El Karima, the white princess of the Dulacs, arrives and takes everyone to her capital, Dutra. She is still in love with private Teuns Stegmann, and due to his hypnotic state, she treats him in her palace while his comrades train the Arab soldiers.


Following the “treason” of the Legion in attacking Arab tribes and abducting their people, all Arab tribes unite and march towards the Dini Salam fort, surrounding it in their thousands. Colonel Le Clerq, the commanding officer of Dini Salam, receives a perplexing message about his captain’s betrayal from the Arabs, and he hastens to prepare himself and his fort for the impending attack that will annihilate them.


Teuns Stegmann is eventually released from his hypnotic state by one of his allies and recognizes that he must hurry to fort Dini Salam to alert the colonel about the situation as soon as possible. With his valor and ingenuity, Teuns ultimately manages to escape with his men from Dutra, but the Legion soldiers who had earlier kidnapped them, along with El Karima’s Dulacs, are hot on their heels. During their pursuit towards Dini Salam, they stumble upon something in a cave that stuns and astonishes everyone.


In the interim, Dini Salam is attacked by approximately twenty thousand Arabs, and Colonel Le Clerq and Lieutenant Juin make every effort to prevent one brutal assault after another. However, aid from Headquarters is refused, and it appears that fort Dini Salam is fated to suffer defeat, but then something unusual occurs among the Arab hordes assembled around fort Dini Salam...

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