Clive Eric Cussler (created July 15, 1931) is an American experience novelist and marine archaeologist. Cussler is the creator and chairman of the real life National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has found more than sixty shipwreck sites and numerous other noteworthy submerged submerged wreckage’s. He could be the only writer or lead writer of more than 50 publications.
After making dinner for the children and putting them to bed he’d no one to talk to and nothing to do thus he made a decision to begin composing. The Dirk Pitt novels often take on an alternative history view, like “what if Atlantis were real?” or “what if Abraham Lincoln was not assassinated, but was kidnapped?” The very first two Pitt novels, The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg, were comparatively traditional marine thrillers. The third, Raise the Titanic!, made Cussler’s reputation and created the routine that following Pitt novels would follow: a mixture of high adventure and high technology, usually involving megalomaniacal villains, lost boats, lovely girls, and sunken treasure. Cussler’s novels, like those of Michael Crichton, are examples of techno thrillers which do not use military story lines and settings. Where Crichton strove for scrupulous realism, yet, Cussler favors amazing scenes and outlandish plot devices. The Pitt novels, particularly, have the anything goes quality of the James Bond or Indiana Jones films, while additionally occasionally taking up from Alistair MacLean’s novels. Pitt himself is a larger than life hero reminiscent of Doc Savage as well as other characters from pulp magazines.
On the screen adaptation of his book, Sahara: "I don't know whose book they think they're adapting but it sure isn't mine. I can't approve what they're doing. I've thrown away all the scripts they've sent me - seven or eight so far - and told them to go back and follow the book. But they refuse. They insist on doing it their way."
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Did not start writing until he was 34 years old.
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He has had 17 consecutive novels on the ''New York Times Bestsellers list".
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Began handing the reigns of his Dirk Pitt franchise over to his son, Dirk Cussler, with the 2004 novel "Dark Wind." Father and son co-authored the book (which focuses on Pitt's son Dirk Pitt Jr.) and also collaborated on the next in the series, "Treasure of Khan" (2006).
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Named his popular adventure character "Dirk Pitt" after his own son, Dirk Cussler.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 78-84. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.