Titre : | The Adventures of Tintin : The Red sea sharks |
Auteurs : | Hergé, Auteur |
Editeur : | London : Egmont, 2002 |
Format : | 62p / ill., couv ill. en coul / 30 cms. |
Note générale : |
A Tintin comic book in English.In Brussels, Tintin and Captain Haddock bump into an old acquaintance, General Alcazar. They exchange contacts and Alcazar rushes off, dropping his wallet. Tintin attempts to return it only to learn he gave them a false address. Examining its contents, they find photos of De Havilland Mosquitos and other military aircraft. They also find a proper address and return the wallet to the hotel's front desk, where they see Alcazar in conversation with arms dealer J.M Dawson, and notice Thomson and Thompson listening in. When they return home to Marlinspike Hall, they discover that the Emir of Khemed, Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, has been overthrown by his nemesis Sheikh Bab El Ehr. The surprise coup was successful due to air support in the form of Mosquitos. The Emir has sent his son, the disobedient Abdullah, to stay at Marlinspike for his own protection. Abdullah proceeds to cause chaos at Marlinspike with his practical jokes. Later, the detectives visit and accidentally inform Tintin that Alcazar has been involved in arms dealings with Dawson. Following an ad in a newspaper offering military equipment for sale, Tintin finds Dawson and learns that he sold the Mosquitos to Bab El Ehr. Tintin decides to go to Khemed and rescue the Emir, which Haddock reluctantly agrees to join in in order to avoid Abdullah's tricks. Arriving in the country, the duo narrowly survive a bomb planted aboard the plane to kill them, and are able to slip into the city of Wadeshah unobserved. There they meet an old friend, the Portuguese merchant Oliveira da Figueira, who helps them to escape the city and ride on horseback to the Emir's hideout. They are pursued by armoured cars and fighter planes ordered to intercept them by "Mull Pasha", who is actually Tintin's old antagonist, Dr. Müller. However, Müller's orders are misinterpreted and the planes strafe the cars instead of the riders. The Emir welcomes Tintin and Haddock. He reveals that there is an ongoing slave trade through Khemed, and the traders organized the coup when the Emir threatened to reveal them. The ring is operated by international businessman the Marquis di Gorgonzola, who falsely offers transport to African Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca and then sells them into slavery. Tintin and Haddock leave for the Red Sea coast and board a sambuk for Mecca to investigate. They are attacked by the Mosquitos; Tintin shoots down one of the planes and rescues its mercenary Estonian pilot, Piotr Skut. The three are picked up by di Gorgonzola's yacht, the Scheherazade, but they are soon offloaded onto the SS Ramona, a tramp steamer. Di Gorgonzola turns out to be another of Tintin's old adversaries, Roberto Rastapopoulos. Unbeknownst to Tintin and Haddock, the Ramona is one of di Gorgonzola's own ships, used in the slave trade. A fire breaks out at night and Allan, Haddock's former chief mate and commander of the Romana, abandons the ship with the crew in the middle of the night to escape the fire igniting the explosives in the forward hold. Awakening, Tintin, Haddock, and Skut discover the fire and put it out with the help of a huge wave. Examining the ship, they find that the other holds are full of pious Muslim Africans enslaved on their way to Mecca. Haddock releases them and asks for volunteers to help run the ship, heading for Djibouti. Allan and the crew notice the fire go out and attempt to return to the ship, only to see it start up and pull away. Haddock's disbelief of Tintin's conclusion that the Africans in the hold are to be sold as slaves, ends when a dhow flags down the Ramona and a trader comes aboard and asks to see the "coke". Haddock states they are not carrying any; the trader laughs and begins to examine one of the Africans. Haddock expels him from the ship with a flurry of his trademark insults, and the trader contacts di Gorgonzola, who dispatches a U-Boat to destroy the Ramona and the evidence it carries. In the meantime, Skut tries to repair the ship's damaged radio, but an unexpected accident shakes it into working order: hurrying to inform Haddock, Tintin accidentally spots the submarine's periscope just prior to the attack, allowing Haddock to carefully outmaneuver a number of torpedoes while Tintin sends out a distress call. At the height of the battle the engine room telegraph breaks, interfering with his orders. The submarine captain is lining up for another shot when they are depth charged by aircraft from the cruiser USS Los Angeles, who Tintin had successfully managed to radio. A last attempt is made to destroy the Ramona with a limpet mine, but the frogman is hit by the ship's anchor and drops the mine. The Los Angeles chases down the Scheherazade and attempts to capture di Gorgonzola, but he fakes his own death and escapes via a mini-submarine. Tintin and Haddock return to Belgium and learn that the Emir has recaptured Khemed and that Abdullah can return home. Their relaxation is cut short by Jolyon Wagg, who arranged to use Marlinspike for an auto rally as he expects that their life is too boring. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | 843.06 (La bande dessinée) |
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