The Red Sea Sharks (French:
Coke en stock) is the nineteenth volume of
The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series by Belgian cartoonist
Hergé. The story was initially
serialised weekly in Belgium's
Tintin magazine from October 1956 to January 1958 before being published in a collected volume by
Casterman in 1958. The narrative follows the young reporter
Tintin, his dog
Snowy, and his friend
Captain Haddock as they travel to the fictional Middle Eastern kingdom of
Khemed with the intention of aiding the Emir Ben Kalish Ezab in regaining control after a
coup d'état by his enemies, who are financed by slave traders led by Tintin's old nemesis
Rastapopoulos.