John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton said that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This has been seen numerous times throughout history. From Hitler's ideological world and his massacre of six million Jews in an attempt to achieve it, to Mohamed Suhato's embezzlement of somewhere between fifteen and thirty-five billion dollars, which then led to the complete collapse of the Indonesian economy ; the world has set its sights on some evil dignitaries. Clive Cussler completely agrees with Lord Acton and his famous quote in the novel Sahara. The antagonists of this story become totally deleterious in their lust for absolute power, leading to the death of innocent soldiers, the paralysis of his country through the theft of its assets, and the murder of doctors and civilians who pose little threat to his village. domination. In a corrupt mind the only reason someone cares about someone else's life is if it directly benefits their own. The person in power is hungry for more and is willing to spend the lives of others to get it. General Zateb Kazim has no respect for human life in the Sahara and spends his soldiers as he spends the dirty money his corruption has brought him. His first expenditure of soldiers is in an attempt to capture a pristine speedboat that is traveling along the Niger River. Kazim has never seen anything like it and, like the power-hungry leader he is, he demands it. Without any prior knowledge of the boat's origin or who it belongs to, he orders a group of two gunboats and a plane to "capture that fine pleasure craft and execute everyone on board" (Cussler 117). Blinded by his greed, Kazim sends his soldiers to attack the protagonist... middle of paper... the extreme inhumanity presented by his labor camps, Kazim shows that a corrupt leader prioritizes power over human life. Power-related corruptions are seen in today's world as frequently as they are in literature. Indeed, the quest for definitive supremacy leads to the decay of the antagonist's morality and values ​​in the Sahara, which in turn leads him to needlessly expend soldiers, misappropriate funds and valorize his position above being mortal. In the act of trying to eliminate a potential threat to his empire, he spends a renewable resource on his soldiers. As he tries to improve his already luxurious lifestyle, he paralyzes an entire nation. Ultimately, when perfectly innocent people know too much about him, his only solution is to eliminate them. When Lord Acton said: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” He couldn't have been more correct.