''Tuareg'' () is a thriller novel written by Spanish author Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa. This novel was his most critically and commercially successful, with global sales in excess of 5,000,000 copies. It was adapted into a 1984 movie starring Mark Harmon, '' Tuareg – The Desert Warrior''. This is the first book in the Tuareg

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, followed by ''Los Ojos del Tuareg'' and ''El Último Tuareg''.

Plot

One day, two old men and a boy appeared in Gacel Shayah's camp in the Sahara. He, a noble ''inmouchar'' observing the millennial tradition of the desert, sheltered travelers. But he failed to protect them. People in dusty military uniforms violated the ancient hospitality law. They killed the boy and took one old man away. Gasel Shayah remembers the great commandment of the

Tuareg people The Tuareg people (; also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: ''Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn'') are a large Berber ethnic group that principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Alg ...

: your guest is under your protection. Therefore, he has to seek vengeance.

References

{{Reflist 1980 novels Novels set in Africa 20th-century Spanish novels Fiction set in 1980