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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38. SAHARA ADVENTURE SERIES - UNDER A BLAZING SKY
The narrative commences at Fort Jacques, a French stronghold in the Sahara, where a tense atmosphere prevails. Legionnaire Emil Tredoux, a member of the Secret Army Organisation, is bound to a post. Captain Cordier, the commander, announces that Tredoux will be executed for treason. The Secret Army Organisation desires Algeria to remain part of France, contrary to the French government’s decision to grant independence. Cordier fears that Tredoux’s propaganda could sway the entire garrison and intends to make an example of him. He requests volunteers for the firing squad, yet no one steps forward. The silence is broken when Teuns Stegmann, a South African in the Foreign Legion, steps forward.
Teuns’s decision is rooted in a conflict with Tredoux months prior. During a private conversation in the washroom, Tredoux attempted to recruit Teuns to join the Secret Army. Teuns refused and subsequently threatened to report Tredoux. After Teuns informed Captain Cordier about Tredoux’s actions, Cordier confronted Tredoux, leading to the planned execution. The atmosphere within the fortress grows more sombre as the time of Tredoux’s execution draws nearer. Following the execution, a sense of impending doom pervades the fort. Zelda Tredoux, Emil’s twin sister, learns of her brother’s death and swears vengeance. The Secret Army elevates Emil to martyrdom and seeks retribution.
Theuns and his comrades, Podolski and Fritz Mundt, are dispatched back to Fort Jacques with a reinforcement column. Upon their return, they observe vultures near the fort, signalling trouble. Just outside the fort, Teuns and the rest of the garrison discover a gruesome scene. They find the corpses of legionnaires executed there. The reinforcement column is led into an ambush and captured by members of the Secret Army Organisation. Zelda introduces herself as the new commander of the fort. While Teuns devises plans for escape, he quickly realises the only recourse involves betrayal and deception, to save the fate of his comrades. Executing his plan, he finds himself engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with his captors. Teuns must employ all his skill and ingenuity to escape the clutches of the Secret Army and put an end to Zelda’s cruel future schemes. Will Theuns succeed in destroying the Secret Army and preventing the execution of his comrades, or will the secrets buried in the sand remain sealed forever?
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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!
