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Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler
Born July 15, 1931
Died February 24, 2020
Clive Cussler was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler was the founder and chairman of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks. He was the sole author or main author of more than 80 books. His novels have inspired various other works of fiction.
Adaptations
The first movie of a Clive Cussler novel was Raise The Titanic! (1980), featuring Richard Jordan as Dirk Pitt, Jason Robards as Admiral James Sandecker, David Selby as Gene Seagram, and Anne Archer as Dana Seagram.
Paramount Pictures released the movie Sahara on April 8, 2005, featuring Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt, Steve Zahn as Al Giordino, William H. Macy as Admiral Sandecker, and Penélope Cruz as Eva Rojas. It grossed $122 million with $241 million in production and distribution expenses.
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Dirk Pitt Adventures
1 The Mediterranean Caper 1973
2 Iceberg 1975
3 Raise the Titanic! 1976
4 Vixen 03 1978
5 Night Probe 1981
6 Pacific Vortex! 1983
7 Deep Six 1984
8 Cyclops 1986
9 Treasure 1988
10 Dragon 1990
11 Sahara 1992
12 Inca Gold 1994
13 Shock Wave 1996
14 Flood Tide 1997
15 Atlantis Found 1999
16 Valhalla Rising 2001
17 Trojan Odyssey 2003
18 Black Wind 2004
19 Treasure of Khan 2006
20 Arctic Drift 2008
21 Crescent Dawn 2010
22 Poseidon's Arrow 2012
23 Havana Storm 2014
24 Odessa Sea 2016
25 Celtic Empire 2019
26 Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea 2021
27 Clive Cussler's The Corsican Shadow 2023
The NUMA Files
This series of books is based on the character Kurt Austin, Team Leader of NUMA's Special Assignments division and his adventures. Some characters from the Pitt novels appear such as Sandecker, Al Giordino, Rudi Gunn, Hiram Yaeger and St. Julien Perlmutter. Pitt makes brief appearances in the books Serpent, White Death, Polar Shift, Devil's Gate, The Storm, Zero Hour, and Ghost Ship and is mentioned in Lost City. Juan Cabrillo, the captain of the ship Oregon, also made a brief appearance in The Pharaoh's Secret.
# Title Publication date
1 Serpent * 1999, Jun 1
2 Blue Gold * 2000, Aug 1
3 Fire Ice * 2002, Jun 3
4 White Death * 2003, Jun 23
5 Lost City * 2004, Jul 22
6 Polar Shift * 2005, Aug 30
7 The Navigator * 2007, Jun 5
8 Medusa * 2009, Jul 2
9 Devil's Gate † 2011, Nov 14
10 The Storm † 2012, May 29
11 Zero Hour † 2013, May 28
12 Ghost Ship † 2014, May 27
13 The Pharaoh's Secret † 2015, Nov 17
14 Nighthawk † 2017, Jun 19
15 The Rising Sea † 2018, Mar 13
16 Sea of Greed † 2018, Nov 6
17 Journey of the Pharaohs † 2020, Mar 10
18 Fast Ice † 2021, Mar 9
19 Clive Cussler's Dark Vector †† 2022, May 24
20 Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury †† 2023, September
The Oregon Files
This series of books features a ship named the Oregon, which Cussler introduced in the Dirk Pitt Adventures novel Flood Tide (1997). While appearing to be a decrepit freighter, it is actually a high-tech advanced ship used by an unnamed and mysterious "Corporation" under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo. The ship is run like a business, with its crew being shareholders, taking jobs for the CIA and other agencies to help stop crime and terrorism. The crew is adept at disguises, combat, computer hacking and more to aid them in their missions. Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and Dirk Pitt all make cameo appearances in the fourth volume, Skeleton Coast (Cabrillo speaks to Pitt on the telephone; and Austin and Zavala appear at the end).
# Title Publication date
1 Golden Buddha 2003
2 Sacred Stone 2004
3 Dark Watch 2005
4 Skeleton Coast 2006
5 Plague Ship 2008
6 Corsair 2009
7 The Silent Sea 2010
8 The Jungle 2011
9 Mirage 2013
10 Piranha 2015
11 The Emperor's Revenge 2016
12 Typhoon Fury 2017
13 Shadow Tyrants 2018
14 Final Option 2019
15 Marauder 2020
16 Clive Cussler's Hellburner 2022
17 Clive Cussler's Fire Strike 2023
18 Clive Cussler's Ghost Soldier 2024
Isaac Bell Adventures
These books are set mostly in the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century. They center around Isaac Bell, a brilliant investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, which appears to be modeled after the real-life Pinkerton Agency. Like Pitt, Bell has an affinity for automobiles and is a crack shot. The first book reveals that Bell survives into 1950 with a wife and grown children. Though the setting is a century ago, the books still qualify as techno-thrillers, since they feature the advanced technology of that time such as private express trains, telegraphs, telephones, dreadnought battleships and early airplanes. Isaac Bell also is a principal character of the background story in the Fargo Adventures novel The Gray Ghost.
# Title Publication date
1 The Chase 2007
2 The Wrecker ‖ 2009
3 The Spy ‖ 2010
4 The Race ‖ 2011
5 The Thief ‖ 2012
6 The Striker ‖ 2013
7 The Bootlegger ‖ 2014
8 The Assassin‖ 2015
9 The Gangster ‖ 2016
10 The Cutthroat ‖ 2017
11 The Titanic Secret § 2019
12 The Saboteurs § 2021
13 Clive Cussler's The Sea Wolves §§ 2022
14 Clive Cussler's The Heist §§ 2024
Fargo Adventures
The series focuses on Sam and Remi Fargo, a married couple who are professional treasure hunters.
1 Spartan Gold ^ 2009
2 Lost Empire ^ 2010
3 The Kingdom ^ 2011
4 The Tombs + 2012
5 The Mayan Secrets + 2013
6 The Eye of Heaven × 2014
7 The Solomon Curse × 2015
8 Pirate ** 2016
9 The Romanov Ransom ** 2017
10 The Gray Ghost ** 2018
11 The Oracle ** 2019
12 Wrath of Poseidon ** 2020
Non-fiction
The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks ‡ 1996
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed ‡ 1998
The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks ‡ 2002
Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt 2011
Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt 2016
Children's books
The Adventures of Vin Fiz 2006
The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy 2010
Sahara by Clive Cussler
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Egypt, 1996. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful UN scientist who’s investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world’s seas.
Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries—the fate of a Civil War ironclad and its secret connection with Lincoln’s assassination, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand—in a battle the world cannot afford to lose.