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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32. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - FLAMES ACROSS THE SANDS
The story unfolds amidst the stifling heat of the Sahara desert, at the fortress Dini Salam, where members of the French Foreign Legion are stationed. The garrison’s routine is disrupted by the arrival of a perfumed letter, addressed to Teuns Stegmann, a South African legionnaire. The letter, originating from an unknown woman in Algiers named Elsa Moram, contains an urgent request for a meeting, promising information of cardinal importance to both Teuns and the entire Foreign Legion. Teuns’s comrades, among them the German Fritz Mundt, the Englishman Jack Ritchie, the Pole Podolski, and the Italian Petacci, are curious and excited about the letter, speculating about the mysterious Elsa’s identity and motives.
Teuns, plagued by a vague, unsettling memory associated with the name “Moram,” decides to accept the invitation, driven partly by curiosity and partly by an inexplicable inner compulsion. His encounter with Elsa reveals a harrowing tale of betrayal, torture, and revenge. Elsa, a strikingly beautiful nightclub performer, reveals she is the twin sister of a legionnaire, Emil Moram, who was brutally murdered by Arabs years before. Elsa is determined to avenge her brother’s death, a goal that resonates within Teuns’s heart as well. She discloses disturbing information about secret caravans traversing the desert, presumably transporting materials for a top-secret rocket base. This information constitutes a deadly threat capable of shaking the Foreign Legion to its core. Teuns, initially sceptical but later convinced by Elsa’s sincerity, agrees to help her. Shortly thereafter, Elsa is abducted. Following a terrifying escape from an Arab club, Teuns and his companions, with Elsa’s financial backing, decide to investigate themselves.
The journey through the unforgiving desert is long and arduous. Tensions run high, not only due to the looming danger but also because of the uncertainty of their mission and the fact that they have undertaken this strange journey without leave from the Foreign Legion. They track the mysterious caravans, determined to uncover the truth. Near the El Riza oasis, they acquire a camel carrying a suspicious cargo of electronic instruments, which confirms their suspicions. After a skirmish with a Russian officer, they discover the location of the rocket base in a remote wadi. They are captured but escape dramatically, aided by an unexpected ally. Armed with explosives and determination, they return to the base, this time resolute on thwarting the Arabs’ plans. But will they be in time, or is there a traitor in their midst, someone who has been watching them from the very beginning? The key to the secret perhaps lies hidden within an unexpected, perfumed memory...
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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!
