A Note from John: "We have closely followed Clive Cussler for twenty years. 1996 brought the release of the 13th Dirk Pitt Adventure, SHOCK WAVE. In a couple of weeks we will celebrate the release of the 24th Dirk Pitt book, ODESSA SEA. It is the 7th title co-authored by Dirk Cussler, and marks the return of Pitt's kids, Dirk Jr. and Summer, who we first met in BLACK WIND.
With the addition of books from the other Cussler storylines, the NUMA Files, the Oregon Files, Isaac Bell Adventures, and the Fargo Adventures, the past year has been loaded with new books from team Cussler.
ODESSA SEA brings the number of deluxe limited editions produced by our Norwood Press imprint to well over 50 volumes.
We would like to thank Clive and his current co-authors for their continued support. Special thanks to Dirk Cussler, Graham Brown, Justin Scott, Boyd Morrison, and Robin Burcell. "
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.
Norwood Press is the SOUL publisher of Clive Cussler limited edition titles.
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