Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and successful marine archaeologist.
Clive Cussler Quote
"When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt."
Novels by Clive Cussler: The Chase, The Navigator (NUMA Files), Treasure of Khan, Skeleton Coast: A Novel of the Oregon Files, Dragon, The Mediterranean Caper, Dark Watch (Oregon Files), Pacific Vortex (Dirk Pitt Adventures), Polar Shift, Deep Six (Dirk Pitt Adventures), Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventures), Iceberg, Treasure, Shock Wave (Dirk Pitt Adventures), Cyclops, Inca Gold (Dirk Pitt Adventures), White Death (NUMA Files), Night Probe and Dirk Pitt Revealed.