This Sahara series story (40 books) is about Teuns Stegmann’s adventures in the Sahara desert. Together with his four loyal friends in the French Foreign Legion, they experienced one after the other exciting, tense, and action-driven adventure.
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13. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - BLOODSTAINED DUNES
At Dini Salam, a French Foreign Legion outpost in the Sahara, radio technician Gide receives a chilling message. Oil Camp D is under attack by unidentified assailants clad in Legion uniforms. This alarming news reaches Colonel Le Clerq, already troubled by concerns over a missing patrol. Amidst this tension, Teuns Stegmann, a tall, blond South African, stands under the shower, speculating about a new recruit, Metaxas, a dark man who appears suspicious. A confrontation ensues, wherein Teuns accuses Metaxas of being a Russian, not a Greek. A fistfight breaks out, interrupted by Sergeant Zhakof, but its underlying tension lingers palpably.
Teuns plays a pivotal role in the events that subsequently unfold. He is part of the fifty-man strong expedition under the command of Captain D’Arlan, dispatched to protect Oil Camp C. Teuns’s keen observation leads him to notice horse tracks near the camp, causing D’Arlan to suspect foul play. The tension mounts as they approach the deserted camp, where an ominous silence prevails. Teuns’s suspicions are confirmed when they discover a trace of blood beneath a steel door, leading to a scene of horror in the workshop. Teuns’s intuition regarding Metaxas is chillingly validated when they realize the camp never received the warning message. The encounter with Koebikof, a colossal Russian and Madame Bonnet’s champion, reveals the extent of the conspiracy. Teuns and Fritz Mundt become hostages, while D’Arlan is sent to retrieve the rest of the patrol.
Teuns’s quick thinking and bravery come to the fore when he and Fritz execute an escape attempt, but they are recaptured and brutally treated. D’Arlan, caught in a deadly dilemma, makes a desperate decision that places Teuns and Fritz’s lives in jeopardy. The wind becomes an ally in a daring escape plan. D’Arlan plans to attempt a rescue of Teuns and Fritz with nearly fifty men at his disposal. The denouement is fraught with intrigue, as Teuns finds himself in a situation that will test his abilities to the absolute limit. Will the rescue attempt prove to be Teuns’s greatest challenge ever? The true nature of the enemy is unveiled in a secret yet to be unravelled...
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Dr. Frans Alwyn Venter (27 November 1916 - 8 July 1997) grew up in difficult times. The periods when he farmed, it was mainly during the depression years and he had to endure various droughts on top of that. However, these tough years gave him the maturity and determination to come up with his wonderful stories, which are still highly in demand today and will continue to be. Nothing was easy in his life, and he had to work very hard to make it a success. He was not someone who had time for nonsense. As a kind of a loner, he did not have much regard for all kinds of groups. He nevertheless had a great appreciation and respect for nature, his language, his people, his history, and especially his fellow man. It was always a pleasure and delight for him, when he met someone, to first strike up a quick conversation with the person, to get to know the person better rather than being interested in what the person could do for him. Truly a remarkable and very rare trait that commands respect and admiration. F.A. Venter was undoubtedly a phenomenal writer, whose equal is difficult to find. His field of writing was broad and each of his books is difficult to put down before one has even finished reading it. He wrote only a few books under his name. Other pseudonyms he used for his books were Meiring Fouche, Marius de Jongh, Elske te Water, and Rene Stegman. However, he wrote most of his books under the pseudonym Meiring Fouche and quickly reached great heights, especially with his four “Trek” books, Offerland, Gelofte Land, Geknelde Land, and Bedoelde Land. His book Man van Cirene is widely regarded as the most popular and was translated into several languages shortly after its publication. In total, F.A. Venter wrote more than ninety softcover books and more than forty hardcover books! He also wrote several short stories for magazines and newspapers and his books are still in demand and extremely popular with young and old. What made him so unique as a writer was the fact that with his writing style, he had the exceptional ability to conjure up a whole story in your head with one sentence or a few sentences that you could associate with or see play out in your mind’s eye. You only need to read the first one or two paragraphs of any of his books to be immediately captivated and held captive in the given story until you have read the last page of the book. Together with excellent descriptions of all his stories, with the fewest words possible, it makes the reader look forward to reading his next book. In this Sahara Adventure series, you meet Teuns Stegmann, an extremely brave, clever, and talented South African. His brother’s fighter plane was shot down over the mighty Sahara Desert by a German pilot during World War II. Desert Arabs captured him and later killed him before he could escape. To avenge his brother’s death, Teuns then left his beautiful wine farm in the Hex River Valley in South Africa and joined the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. There he quickly made great friends with a Pole, an Italian, an Englishman, and a German. Together, the five of them had to face the mighty Sahara desert with all its dangers that lurked around every corner. If it’s not the Arabs threatening their lives, it’s some crazy professor who wants to use secret gas to wipe out their Foreign Legion soldiers. With one exciting and action-packed adventure after another coming their way, it is Teuns Stegmann’s brilliant mind and incredible bravery that repeatedly save them from trouble. This series of forty books in the Sahara Adventure series, written by F.A. Venter under the pseudonym Meiring Fouche, will stay with you forever. It is without a doubt a Sahara series of stories without equality that both young and old can enjoy. So, if you like stories that are top-notch and set in the mighty and deadly Sahara desert, then this series is just for you. It is so well-written that you will want to take it out of your story bookcase every five years to reread and enjoy it all over again. With a warm cup of coffee or a glass of wine in hand, there is nothing that beats this series for action and adventure!
