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Find all the books, read about the author, and more. At the height of the cold war, america lives under the threat of nuclear attack by the soviet union. Clive cussler biography clive cussler born july 15, 1931 in alhambra, california is an american adventure novelist. His past international bestsellers include pacific vortex, mediterranean caper, iceberg, raise the titanic, vixen 03, night probe, deep six, cyclops, treasure, dragon, sahara, inca gold, shock wave, flood tide, atlantis found, valhalla rising, trojan odyssey and black wind this last with his son, dirk cussler. Cussler wrote more than 2 dozen novels, including raise the titanic, in his series of dirk pitt novels. Raise the titanic was cussler s first novel to have several plots going on at the same time and to have them all converge at the end. Clive cussler, bestselling adventure novelist, dead at 88. Clive cussler, the bestselling author whose novels raise the titanic. It was a terrible tragedy, so many lives were lost, and god knows what else. Clive cussler began writing in 1965 when his wife took a job working nights for the local police department where they lived in california. One of the most common questions posed our membership relates to the identification of cussler first editions. In addition to the information provided below, we highly recommend wayne valleros book titled the collectors guide to clive cussler that provides a complete overview of cussler collecting. His 1976 adventure novel, raise the titanic, also one of his dirk pitt books, became. Writing the first two pitt novels, raise the titanic.