5 books
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1. Footsteps to Death
FOOTSTEPS TO DEATH - SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES In the second narrative out of the pen of Meiring Fouche, the French Foreign Legion meets up again with El Karima, the white princess of the Dulak nation. She had not forgotten the humiliation she had suffered six months ago, by the hands of the tall, blonde, South African, by the name of Teuns Stegmann. Not only had he betrayed her love for him, but he had also nearly destroyed her whole nation. On one of their routine patrols through the hot Sahara desert, Sergeant Vermeer and his soldiers discover two dead horses that had been ridden by women. To their horror, they find out that one of the women is the wife of Colonel Le Clerq, the commanding officer of Dini Salam. Shortly afterwards, a sheik arrives at the fort and demands that Teuns Stegmann should accompany him to Dutra, the stronghold of El Karima’s Dulaks. In exchange for Teuns, she will release the wife of Colonel Le Clerq. Colonel Le Clerq refuses the demand, so Teuns Stegmann has no choice but to escape out of the fort, with the Arab, against his commanding officer’s wishes. In Dutra, Teuns quickly finds out that El Karima is a woman who breaks all of her promises, when he does not respond to her love for him. Not even when he fights a giant man with his bare hands,would she allow the colonel’s wife to be released. El Karima then decides to have Teuns, and the French wife of Colonel Le Clerq, killed in Dini Salam, by having them torn apart between two horses, but that is a fact not known by the commanders in Dini Salam. Help comes in the form of an unexpected source, when someone tells them about El Karima’s plans. She requests that the whole garrison of Dini Salam should vacate the fort, unarmed, and only then she will release the French wife of Colonel Le Clerq. Captain D’Arlan, the Houdini of the desert, has his hands full to try and rescue the soldiers and the prisoners. As if all of that isn’t enough, Colonel Le Clerq does something that shocks them to the core…
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2. Witch of the Sahara
This is the first story in the Sahara Adventure series, in which you will meet, among others, Teuns Stegmann. A South African who joined the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara Desert, to avenge the death of his brother who was killed there. The story begins when a Legionnaire is fortunate enough to survive an attack by the Arabs in the desert. He speaks of a white woman who apparently commanded the attack on the French patrol. Colonel Le Clerq of Fort Dini Salam decides to immediately retaliate. He sends his faithful captain D’Arlan with two hundred men, including Teuns and his companions, to break the so-called "white witch's" power in the Atlas Mountains before she has too much French blood on her hands. Very soon, however, the column ends up in serious trouble. They are trapped by the Doelaks in the desert, without a drop of water to drink. And, as if this is not bad enough, they will later be forced to work in a radioactive Uranium mine with some of them being sent to the “Hill of the Eagles”. Will Teuns’s experience together with D’Arlan’s ingenuity, who is considered “the Houdini of the desert,” be enough to save them from their predicament? Read the exciting story to find out for yourself.
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3. Sahara Adventure Series
10. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - MADEMOISELLE JULIE About two thousand Dulacs have surrounded Fort Laval and are demanding that Captain Gaston Lefevre, the commanding officer of the French Foreign Legion, surrender the fort to them without any opposition. This places him in a very delicate situation because the Dulacs allege that they have kidnapped his daughter, Julie Lefevre. They say that they will kill her if he and all his soldiers do not immediately vacate the fort. The Arab sheik promises him that he is only interested in the fort and nothing else. To the utter dismay of his men, Captain Lefevre decides to grant the sheik’s request. He asks for a volunteer to go and fetch his daughter and make the final arrangements. The South African, Teuns Stegmann, is the only man who steps forward and takes the dangerous task upon himself. While Teuns is en route to the Dulac camp just outside the fort, Sergeant Zhakof decides to take over the command of the fort and place Captain Lefevre under arrest. He signals Teuns to return to the fort at once, but before Teuns can reach the fort, he gets captured by the Dulacs. In the main tent of the sheik, he meets Julie Lefevre, one of the most beautiful women he has ever seen. The sheik gives Teuns only fifteen minutes to return to the fort and demands the fort’s surrender. Otherwise, Julie will die. Teuns never returns, but to the amazement of the sheik, Captain Lefevre arrives out of nowhere. He takes him to the fort to demand the surrender of the fort. When they reach the fort, though, they find it empty, to their utter shock and surprise. Not even one soldier is left hiding there. They struggle to unravel this secret. How could all the soldiers have slipped through the Dulac lines positioned around the fort and summarily disappeared without a trace? Sheik Feisan orders Captain Lefevre to accompany him to the armory, as it is the weapons and ammunition he wants to lay his hands on. But once again, the sheik is heavily disappointed because what he finds there is not what he had expected to find. If that is not enough, something happens in the armory that places the Dulacs in a very tight spot. Lead quickly flies in all directions, and one tense situation follows another, causing huge frustration and misery for the sheik and his followers. Standing between the sheik and the things he had come for, one very brave and intelligent person thwarts his plans, one after another...
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4. Sahara Adventure Series
5. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - THE FORT IS QUIET Teuns Stegmann, Fritz Mundt, and Jack Ritchie were involved in a bar fight with some Arabs and, as a result, were temporarily transferred to Fort Laval, another French fort located in the Sahara desert, as a form of punishment. When Lieutenant Juin and his relief columns arrived at Fort Laval, they immediately recognized that something was amiss. The fort was empty, and the gates were wide open. While the rest of the men waited outside, Teuns and Fritz joined Lieutenant Juin to investigate the situation inside the fort. However, they were quickly overpowered by Brigitte Bonnet, sister of the previous princess of the Dulacs, who sought revenge for her sister’s death and wanted to destroy the French Foreign Legion. The thirty men, including Teuns and Fritz, were locked up in the sleeping quarters of the fort without food or water. Soon after, they began to hear bloodcurdling screams of pain, and shortly after that, a soldier was carried out by men wearing rubber gloves. Brigitte Bonnet revealed to them that she possessed a highly secret weapon she wanted to test on all the Legion soldiers. Teuns was selected as the next guinea pig for the cruel experiment, and shortly after, his lifeless body was also carried out of the fort. Fritz and Jack were permitted to retrieve water and food one last time before they were shot dead under the pretense of an escape attempt. The remaining Legion men became increasingly desperate from hunger and thirst and began to hear strange noises coming from the floor of their sleeping quarters, sounding like Morse code. Brigitte Bonnet searched the fort twice to locate the culprits responsible for the noises but found nothing. The following day, Professor Benesj arrived with more soldiers in a cargo plane to test the impact of the deadly secret weapon on the Legion men. The despondent men awaited help before they were taken to the desert for experimentation. As the final arrangements were being made, chaos erupted in Fort Laval, and one shocking incident followed another.
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5. Sahara Adventure Series
11. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - REVENGE OF THE SABRE During the Second World War, Teuns Stegmann’s brother was shot down over the Sahara Desert by a German fighter plane. This was also the main reason why Teuns joined the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara. To search for his lost brother by temporarily giving up his beautiful wine farm in the Hex Valley. While on a short leave of absence and enjoying a drink with his loyal fellow soldiers in a restaurant in Algiers, a mysterious, short man appears and asks to speak to Teuns alone. However, his friends warn him against it. The man tells Teuns the shocking news that his brother is still alive and that he is willing to escort him to his brother, as his brother had tasked him with finding Teuns. By using the very thing Teuns treasures, the man manages to convince him. Teuns decides to apply for special leave to accompany the man, but Fritz Mundt has other plans, and a deadly fight ensues in the bar between Arabs and Legion men. The men fight for their lives, and when the police arrive, they discover that Teuns has disappeared without a trace. Teuns finds himself in the clutches of a villain and three henchmen, who give him a choice. Deliver the Sabre of Dutra, worth millions of rands, which Teuns had hidden at an oasis long ago, or his brother will die. They shackle his hands and feet and take him to the oasis in the desert, where Teuns must find the sabre for them. He tries to stall them to gain extra time for an escape plan. He cleverly turns the villains on one another, and one after the another, they get eliminated. As Teuns reckons that the time has finally come for him to escape, approximately three hundred Dulacs arrive. The Sword of Dutra belongs to them, and their sheik makes it impossible for Teuns to escape. However, they have not encountered the bravery and resourcefulness of this tall, blonde South African before, and he concocts a brilliant plan. If everything works out exactly as he wants, his plan will give him a slim chance of getting away alive. However, he is desperate, and this might be his last chance. When all seems lost, Teuns executes his extraordinary plan. When the Dulacs finally grasp his clever plan and want to attack him, he plays his last trump card...