
Dirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name.
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Cast
- Jude Akuwudike
- Mark Aspinall
- Rakie Ayola
- Christopher Bello
- Nicholas Beveney
- Empotoe Bosage
- Robert Cavanah
- Penélope Cruz
- Clint Dyer
- Matthew Flynn
- Paulin Fodouop
- Ouahbou Houcine
- Emmanuel Ighodaro
- Lennie James
- Maurice Lee
- Delroy Lindo
- Daniel Njo Lobé
- William H. Macy
- Francis Magee
- Patrick Malahide
- Thierno Amath Mbaye
- Matthew McConaughey
- Femi Ogunbanjo
- Eddie Osei
- Nathan Osgood
- Lahcen Ouezgane
- Robert Paterson
- Abdul Salis
- Tosin Sanyalo
- Christopher Saul
- Billy Seymour
- Mark Springer
- Glynn Turman
- Celestine Vita
- Mark Wells
- Lambert Wilson
- Rainn Wilson
- Steve Zahn
- Gary Bunn
- Nina Aimer Fox
- Daniel Jude Gennis
- Shane Pinson
Plots
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
Master explorer and former US Navy Seal Dirk Pitt and his wisecracking buddy Al Giordino goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War ironclad battleship known as the "Ship of Death" that protects a secret cargo is lost somewhere in the deserts of West Africa. But while the two cross paths with a beautiful and brilliant U.N. scientist Dr. Eva Rojas who is being hounded by a ruthless dictator. She believes that the hidden treasure may be connected to a larger problem that threatens the world around them. Hunting for a ship that no one else thinks exists, Dirk, Al, and Eva must rely on their wits and their daring heroics to outsmart dangerous warlords, survive the threatening terrain, and get to the bottom of both mysteries.
Retired US admiral Sandecker's foundation finances various projects worldwide, including high tech marine salvage by brilliant Dirk Pitt's US Navy Seal veterans team including buddy Al Giordino , which dreams of finding the mysteriously missing Confederal gold aboard the ironclad battleship 'of Death'. Pitts bumps into evidence for his theory it crossed the Atlantic up the river Niger, where the admiral has an environmental project. Alas it's a West African dictatorship where the ruthless president suppresses the desert people, in league with billionaire French energy industrialist Yves Massarde. Saving reckless WHO epidemics researcher Dr. Eva Rojas, he learns the secret abducted tribal slaves-run waste plant's toxic output threatens, trough an underground fluvial system, to pollute the ocean and hence cause a global killer epidemic.
Searching for a treasure on the River Niger, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful W.H.O. scientist investigating a disease that is killing thousands of West Africans. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team run a gauntlet between a billionaire French industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt uncovers the truth behind his life-long quest - the fate of a Civil War ironclad. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford to lose.