The Great Sand Sea

Nobody in Cairo will hire Ruby Chandler to drive, though she can put a loaded lorry over a dune crest that beats every man in Egypt. So when the ruined explorer who lost her brother in the Great Sand Sea comes begging for a mechanic, she takes his money — and his lies — to learn the truth. Four hundred miles out, a fuel cache is short, a well is poisoned, and the only authority left is water.