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VJ Books Features Clive Cussler!
 Clive Cussler, the Grand Master of the American action adventure novel, grew up in Alhambra, California. He later attended Pasadena City College for two years, but then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War where he served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air Transport Service.
Upon his discharge, he became a copywriter and later creative director for two of the nation's leading ad agencies. At that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that won numerous international awards one at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Cussler began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring Dirk Pitt®, The Mediterranean Caper, in 1973. His first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. Because of this work the Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May of 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree has been bestowed.
As The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II relate, Cussler is the founder the National Underwater & Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization that dedicates itself to American maritime and naval history. Cussler and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered over 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites. After verifying their finds, NUMA turns the rights to the artifacts over to non-profits, universities, or government entities all over the world. Some of these finds include the C.S.S. Hunley, best known as the first submarine to sink a ship in battle; the Housatonic, the ship the Hunley sank; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron; the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, Texas; and the remains of the Carpathia, the valiant ship that braved icebergs to rescue the survivors of the Titanic.
In addition to being Chairman of NUMA, Cussler is a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He has also been honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration.A noted collector of classic automobiles, Cussler owns 85 of the finest examples of custom coachwork and 50's convertibles to be found anywhere. Cussler divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.
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Zero Hour
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The Striker
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Poseidon's Arrow
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The Tombs
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The Storm
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To see Clive Cussler's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
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Clive Cussler Bibliography
Novels of the Dirk Pitt Series
1. The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Released in the United Kingdom as "MAYDAY!"
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)
Co-authored with Dirk Cussler
18. Black Wind (2004)
19. Treasure of Khan (2006)
20. Arctic Drift (2008)
21. Crescent Dawn (2010)
22. Poseidon's Arrow (2012)
Novels of the NUMA Files (Kurt Austin) Series
Co-authored with Paul Kemprecos
1. Serpent (1999)
2. Blue Gold (2000)
3. Fire Ice (2002)
4. White Death (2003)
5. Lost City (2004)
6. Polar Shift (2005)
7. The Navigator (2007)
8. Medusa (2009)
Co-authored with Graham Brown
9. Devil’s Gate (2011)
10. The Storm (2012)
11. Zero Hour (2013)
Novels of the Oregon Files (Juan Cabrillo) Series
Co-authored with Craig Dirgo
1. Golden Buddha (2003)
2. Sacred Stone (2004)
Co-authored with Jack DuBrul
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)
Novels of the Isaac Bell Series
1. The Chase (2007)
Co-authored with Justin Scott
2. The Wrecker (2009)
3. The Spy (2010)
4. The Race (2011)
5. The Thief (2012)
Novels of the Fargo Series
Co-authored with Grant Blackwood
1. Spartan Gold (2009)
2. Lost Empire (2010)
3. The Kingdom (2011)
4. The Tombs (2012)
Children's Books
· The Adventures of Vin Fiz (2006)
· The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (2010)
Non-Fiction Novels
· 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)
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