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The Sahara Event: Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers Book 7

Atlantis wasn't lost, it was buried.
By Luke Richardson

£10.00

What if we’re looking for Atlantis in the wrong place?

When Dr Eva Glass dies protecting an impossible secret, her final message sends Eden Black racing from the backstreets of Marrakech to a chamber buried beneath the Eye of the Sahara, where a crystal holds the encoded knowledge of a lost civilisation. With a rogue scientist determined to awaken it — and the last awakening having turned paradise into desert — Eden must decide what he’s willing to lose to keep the sand where it belongs.

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Book themes

archaeological thriller
adventure fiction
Richat structure
Mauritania
Atlantis
eye of the Sahara
lost civilisation
historical mystery
action thriller
Race against time

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WHAT IF WE’RE LOOKING FOR ATLANTIS IN THE WRONG PLACE?

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When Dr. Eva Glass dies protecting an impossible secret, her final message hurls EDEN BLACK into a race for the Eye of the Sahara—an ancient crystal encoded with the secrets of a lost civilization.

From motorcycle chases through Marrakech to an underground chamber older than recorded history, Eden must face a rogue scientist determined to use the Eye to resurrect the past. The last time it awakened, a paradise became the Sahara. Now, it could swallow the planet.

The stakes are higher, the truth closer, and the price of saving humanity may mean losing one person Eden can’t let go.

THE SAHARA EVENT is a pulse-pounding archaeological thriller that asks the question—What if Plato lied to protect us? Maybe Atlantis didn’t sink beneath the waves but was swallowed by the sand.

 

While this book has loads of conflict, chase scenes, fighting and suspense, there’s no swearing, sex or gore.

What USA Today, New York Times, and Amazon Bestselling authors think of Luke Richardson’s writing:

“Luke Richardson writes stories the way artists were meant to, by immersing themselves in scenes so that the reader feels like they are in the room with the characters.”
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“Richardson redefines the genre, but in a VERY good way. Skip this one at your peril!”
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“Are you’re a die-hard fan of Indiana Jones, check out Luke Richardson’s work!”
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“Luke Richardson puts you in the center of the action. Hold on tight!”
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“Richardson grabs you on the first page and never lets go – a fantastic story!”
ANDREW CLAWSON

“Luke Richardson has a unique way of transporting you to the locations in his books and dropping you right into the mess with his characters.”
TY HUTCHINSON

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Weight 0.415 kg
Dimensions 20.3 × 12.7 × 2.5 cm

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What is The Sahara Event about?

The Sahara Event asks the question, what if Atlantis was never swallowed by the sea, but buried beneath the Sahara? And what if the civilisation that built it possessed technology so advanced that we are only now beginning to understand what it could do?


It’s a book about ancient power — where it came from, what it’s capable of, and what happens when the wrong people get hold of it. The Sahara Event is a fast-paced archaeological thriller that takes Eden Black from the Caribbean to the streets of Marrakesh and deep into the Mauritanian desert, in search of a truth that powerful people will do anything to suppress.

A glowing crystal recovered from inside the Richat Structure — the Eye of the Sahara — which generates energy in ways modern physics cannot explain and appears to encode information from a lost civilisation. The science behind it is surprisingly real: experts now believe data stored in quartz crystal could survive for a billion years. The pyramids of Giza, Angkor Wat, and Stonehenge are all built from quartz-rich stone. The crystal found beneath the Sahara suggests the ancients knew exactly what they were doing.

As usual the story ties together several intriguing facts and places which aren’t totally understood. The Richat Structure is a real geological formation in Mauritania — forty kilometres across, visible from space, and made up of perfect concentric rings of land that match Plato’s description of Atlantis with striking precision.

We also know that as recently as five thousand years ago, the Sahara was a lush savanna with rivers, lakes, and abundant wildlife — Egyptian hieroglyphs depict giraffes and hippos living where there is now only sand, and ground-penetrating radar has revealed a buried river system beneath the desert as large as the Nile.

In Marrakesh, the walls of the medieval Ben Youssef Madrasa are covered in tile patterns that conform to a mathematical principle — Penrose tiling — not formally understood by Western science until the 1970s. Medieval craftsmen encoded it centuries earlier using only traditional tools and inherited knowledge. And in 43 CE, the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela, working from documents that no longer exist, marked a single word on his map of the known world close to where the Richat Structure stands today: Atlantae. The threads are real. The story pulls them together.

The Sahara Event is probably the most personal book in the series. Threads that have been building since The Ark Files begin to resolve here, and long-standing questions about who Eden really is start to get answers. She is also joined by Hamid — a Marrakesh local whose inherited knowledge of the city’s ancient passages and the desert beyond gives the book an unexpected warmth. For readers of archaeological thrillers looking for a strong female lead with real depth, Eden at book seven is the best she has ever been.

The book moves from the Caribbean to Marrakesh, Morocco — one of the great atmospheric cities of the world, whose twisting alleyways and ancient medina have changed little in centuries. The Ben Youssef Madrasa, whose walls carry quasi-crystalline tile patterns encoding mathematics not discovered by Western science until the 1970s, sits at the heart of the story.

Beneath the city, a network of hidden passages — inspired by the real Saadian Tombs, a royal necropolis sealed off in the 17th century and forgotten entirely until rediscovered in 1917 — provides the backdrop for some of the book’s most tense sequences. From there, the trail leads out across the Atlas Mountains to the Mauritanian desert and the Richat Structure — forty kilometres across, visible from space, and one of the most genuinely mysterious geological formations on earth. For readers looking for archaeological thrillers set in North Africa, or novels that bring Marrakesh and the Sahara to life, this is the book.

Yes — and one rooted in genuinely contested science and history. If you’ve enjoyed Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, Steve Berry, or the theories of Graham Hancock on lost civilisations, The Sahara Event sits squarely in that territory. It also has something the genre doesn’t always manage: a villain whose motivations are entirely understandable, and a mystery whose real-world foundations are as fascinating as the fiction built around them. 

Readers who love archaeological thrillers with a genuine scientific edge will be right at home here. Fans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and Steve Berry who want a thriller rooted in real and contested history. Or anyone who’s spent time reading about the Richat Structure, the Atlantis theory, the Green Sahara, or the growing body of evidence for pre-historic advanced civilisations.
As with the rest of the Eden Black Archaeological Thriller Series, there is action and danger throughout but nothing gratuitously violent or explicit. Older teenagers and adults who enjoy adventure fiction should find it a compelling read.

The full series runs: The Ark Files, The Giza Protocol, The Atlantis Agenda, The Titanic Deception, The Templar Enigma, The Lotus Key, and The Sahara Event. Reading in order gives the fullest experience as characters, relationships, and the broader conspiracy develop across all seven books. That said, each one also works as a standalone thriller.

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Eden Black just gets better and better! I couldn’t put this series down. Nonstop action, lots of emotion, and lots of turning the page to see what comes next. Bravo!
Reader of the The Ark Files
Blow the bloody doors off! Luke Richardson has given me more shivers and jumped up shouting from my seat in this series than I care to talk about. I can't express how much I love the Eden Black series.
Reader of The Giza Protocol
Fans of Indiana Jones will love this book and series. I’m only disappointed that I have to wait for the next book to come out!
Reader of The Atlantis Agenda

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