![]() ![]() He also had a long history of questionable claims - some admitted, some denied. In real life, Cussler founded his own National Underwater and Marine Agency and participated in dozens of searches for old ships, including one that turned up a steamship belonging to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Along the way Pitt saves himself, the world and the damsel of the moment.”Ĭussler has a new novel, Journey of the Pharaohs, set to be released March 10, with several more awaiting posthumous publication. ![]() “Evil forces, be they Commies or Blofeldian madmen, try to stop him. “Again and again, Dirk Pitt, working for the fictional National Underwater and Marine Agency, must find a sunken vessel and retrieve some artifact,” Mark Schone, summarizing Cussler’s novels, wrote in The New York Times in 2004. In Sahara, a race across the desert somehow leads to new information about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Iceberg, the presidents of French Guiana and the Dominican Republic are the ones in danger, during a visit to Disneyland. The Treasure features an aspiring Aztec despot who murders an American envoy, the hijacking of a plane carrying the United Nations secretary-general and soldiers from ancient Rome looting the Library of Alexandria. Cussler was an Illinois native who was raised in Southern California and lived in Arizona for most of his final years, but he sent Pitt around the globe in plots that ranged from the bold to the incredible. ![]()
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