About

Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler (1931-2023) was an American author best known for his adventure novels featuring the underwater explorer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Cussler served in the Air Force before becoming an advertising executive. He began writing novels in his spare time and published his first, "Iceberg," in 1976. The book introduced Dirk Pitt and became a bestseller, launching Cussler's career as a popular novelist. Cussler has written over 80 novels, many of which have been adapted into films and TV series. Notable works include "Raise the Titanic!", "Sahara", and "The NUMA Files" series. He has won numerous awards, including the Horatio Alger Award and the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. Cussler's books are characterized by their fast-paced action, exotic locations, and historical themes. They have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into over 40 languages.

Book Series by Clive Cussler

Dirk Pitt Series

The Mediterranean Caper / Mayday!

1973

Iceberg

1974

Raise the Titanic!

1976

Vixen 03

1978

Night Probe!

1981

Pacific Vortex

1983

Deep Six

1984

Cyclops

1986

Treasure

1988

Dragon

1990

Sahara

1992

Inca Gold

1994

Shock Wave

1996

Flood Tide

1997

Atlantis Found

1999

Valhalla Rising

2001

Trojan Odyssey

2003

Black Wind ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2004

Treasure of Khan ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2006

Arctic Drift ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2008

Crescent Dawn ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2010

Poseidon's Arrow ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2012

Havana Storm ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2014

Odessa Sea ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2016

Celtic Empire ( With: Dirk Cussler)

2018

The Devil's Sea ( By: Dirk Cussler)

2021

The Corsican Shadow ( By: Dirk Cussler)

2023

NUMA Files Series

Serpent ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

1999

Blue Gold ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2000

Fire Ice ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2002

White Death ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2003

Lost City ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2004

Polar Shift ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2005

The Navigator ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2007

Medusa ( With: Paul Kemprecos)

2009

Devil's Gate ( With: Graham Brown)

2011

The Storm ( With: Graham Brown)

2012

Zero Hour ( With: Graham Brown)

2013

Ghost Ship ( With: Graham Brown)

2014

The Pharaoh's Secret ( With: Graham Brown)

2015

Nighthawk ( With: Graham Brown)

2017

The Rising Sea ( With: Graham Brown)

2018

Sea of Greed ( With: Graham Brown)

2019

Journey of the Pharaohs ( With: Graham Brown)

2020

Fast Ice ( With: Graham Brown)

2021

Dark Vector ( With: Graham Brown)

2022

Condor's Fury ( With: Graham Brown)

2023

Desolation Code ( With: Graham Brown)

2024

Oregon Files Series

Golden Buddha ( With: Craig Dirgo)

2003

Sacred Stone ( With: Craig Dirgo)

2004

Dark Watch ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2005

Skeleton Coast ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2006

Plague Ship ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2008

Corsair ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2009

The Silent Sea ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2010

The Jungle ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2011

Mirage ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2013

Piranha ( With: Boyd Morrison)

2015

The Emperor's Revenge ( With: Boyd Morrison)

2017

Typhoon Fury ( With: Boyd Morrison)

2017

Shadow Tyrants ( With: Boyd Morrison)

2018

Final Option ( With: Boyd Morrison)

2019

Marauder ( With: Boyd Morrison)

2020

Hellburner ( By: Mike Maden)

2022

Fire Strike ( By: Mike Maden)

2023

Ghost Soldier ( By: Mike Maden)

2024

Isaac Bell Adventures Series with Jack Du Brul, Justin Scott

The Chase

2007

The Wrecker ( With: Justin Scott)

2009

The Spy ( With: Justin Scott)

2010

The Race ( With: Justin Scott)

2011

The Thief ( With: Justin Scott)

2012

The Striker ( With: Justin Scott)

2013

The Bootlegger ( With: Justin Scott)

2014

The Assassin ( With: Justin Scott)

2015

The Gangster ( With: Justin Scott)

2016

The Cutthroat ( With: Justin Scott)

2017

The Titanic Secret ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2019

The Saboteurs ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2021

The Sea Wolves ( By: Jack Du Brul)

2022

The Heist ( By: Jack Du Brul)

2024

Chronological Isaac Bell Adventures Series

The Striker ( With: Justin Scott)

2013

The Assassin ( With: Justin Scott)

2015

The Chase

2007

The Gangster ( With: Justin Scott)

2016

The Wrecker ( With: Justin Scott)

2009

The Spy ( With: Justin Scott)

2010

The Race ( With: Justin Scott)

2011

The Thief ( With: Justin Scott)

2012

The Cutthroat ( With: Justin Scott)

2017

The Titanic Secret ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2019

The Bootlegger ( With: Justin Scott)

2014

The Saboteurs ( With: Jack Du Brul)

2021

The Sea Wolves ( By: Jack Du Brul)

2022

The Heist ( By: Jack Du Brul)

2024

Clive Cussler Children's Books

The Adventures of Vin Fiz

2006

The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy

2010

Fargo Adventures Series

Spartan Gold ( With: Grant Blackwood)

2009

Lost Empire ( With: Grant Blackwood)

2010

The Kingdom ( With: Grant Blackwood)

2011

The Tombs ( With: Thomas Perry)

2012

The Mayan Secrets ( With: Thomas Perry)

2013

The Eye of Heaven ( With: Russell Blake)

2014

The Solomon Curse ( With: Russell Blake)

2015

Pirate ( With: Robin Burcell)

2016

The Romanov Ransom ( With: Robin Burcell)

2017

The Gray Ghost ( With: Robin Burcell)

2018

The Oracle ( With: Robin Burcell)

2019

Wrath of Poseidon ( With: Robin Burcell)

2020

The Serpent's Eye ( With: Robin Burcell)

2025

The Sea Hunters Series with Craig Dirgo

The Sea Hunters

1994

The Sea Hunters II

2002

Clive Cussler Non-Fiction Books

Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed

1998

Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt

2011

Built to Thrill

2016

General Military Series

The British Home Guard Pocketbook ( By: A.F.U. Green)

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Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple ( By: Stuart Smith)

1950

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 ( By: Mark Rogerson, Ken Small)

1988

Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage ( By: Rick Jolly)

1989

Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War ( By: Thomas A. Desjardin)

1999

Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship ( By: Angus Konstam)

2003

Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan ( By: Martin Pegler)

2004

Rome at War ( By: Adrian Goldsworthy)

2005

Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War ( By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean)

2006

Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited ( By: Andrew Wiest)

2006

FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II ( By: Gordon L. Rottman)

2007

An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 ( By: Stephen Bull)

2008

Warship 2008 ( By: John Jordan)

2008

Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II ( By: Terry Crowdy)

2008

Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World ( By: Brian Lavery)

2009

The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 ( By: Blair Worden)

2009

No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Mi ( By: Kenneth K. Koskodan)

2009

Battleground Prussia ( By: Prit Buttar)

2010

The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa ( By: Dale A. Dye, Robert J. O'Neill)

2011

The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 ( By: Martin Robson)

2011

Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare ( With: James P. Delgado)

2011

Warship 2011 ( By: John Jordan)

2011

Quick Training for War (Short Story) ( By: Robert Baden-Powell, Martin Robson)

2011

Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance ( By: Michael; Green Gladys Green)

2012

The Para Fitness Guide ( By: Sam McGrath)

2012

The Rice Paddy Navy: U.S. Sailors Undercover in China ( By: Linda Kush)

2012

The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Westhorp)

2012

Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq ( By: Lou DiMarco)

2012

America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day ( By: Chris McNab)

2014

American Tanks & AFVs of World War II ( By: Michael Green)

2014

Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne ( By: Ian Senior)

2014

No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden ( By: Ian Gardner)

2014

The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Westhorp)

2014

Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam ( By: Eric Poole)

2015

Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 ( By: Prit Buttar)

2015

The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42 ( By: Thomas Anderson)

2015

Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40 ( By: Vesa Nenye)

2015

American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion ( By: Victor Failmezger)

2015

Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 ( By: Chris Birks, Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen)

2016

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution ( By: Peter McPhee)

2016

Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass ( By: Trevor Absolon)

2016

Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries ( By: Jeremy Black)

2016

We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 ( By: Robert Forczyk)

2016

Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 ( By: Dennis E. Showalter)

2016

With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon ( By: Gene Fax)

2017

Loco Spotter’s Guide (Short Story) ( By: Stuart Black)

2017

The Long Range Desert Group in World War II ( By: Gavin Mortimer)

2017

Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin ( By: Mungo Melvin)

2017

Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II ( By: Michael G. Walling)

2017

Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants ( By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear)

2017

Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 ( By: Jim Laurier, Robert Forsyth)

2017

Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII ( By: Graham Pitchfork)

2017

The Splintered Empires ( By: Prit Buttar)

2017

Panther ( By: Thomas Anderson)

2017

The Second World Wars ( By: Victor Davis Hanson)

2017

Concorde Pocket Manual ( By: Richard Johnstone-Bryden)

2017

Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 ( By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

2017

Case Red: The Collapse of France ( By: Robert Forczyk)

2017

Legion versus Phalanx ( By: Myke Cole)

2018

The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945 (Short Story) ( By: Martin Robson)

2018

Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II ( By: Jeffrey R. Cox)

2018

Cutty Sark Pocket Manual (Short Story) ( By: Arron Hewett, Louise MacFarlane)

2018

Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern ( By: Liesl Bradner, Phil Stern)

2018

Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay ( By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

2018

HMS Belfast Pocket Manual ( By: John Blake)

2018

The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18 (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Bull)

2018

Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage ( By: Martin Robson)

2018

Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu ( By: Kevin M. Boylan, Luc Olivier)

2018

Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On ( By: Leigh Neville)

2018

Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence ( By: Jeremy Black, National Archives)

2018

The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45 ( By: Christian Jennings)

2018

Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans ( By: Andrew Wiest)

2018

Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq ( By: Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar)

2018

Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank ( By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov)

2018

Hitler's Death ( By: Luke Daly-Groves)

2019

The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present ( By: Chris McNab, Mark Galeotti)

2019

The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers ( By: Angus Konstam)

2019

How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide (Short Story) ( By: National Archives)

2019

An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45 ( By: Gianluca Barneschi)

2019

War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi ( By: Mike Loades)

2019

Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS ( By: Alastair MacKenzie)

2019

Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions ( By: Thomas Anderson)

2019

Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea ( By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

2019

World War II Battle by Battle ( By: Nikolai Bogdanovic)

2019

Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands ( By: Rick Jolly)

2019

Warship 2019 ( By: John Jordan)

2019

Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet ( By: Innes McCartney)

2019

Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway ( By: David Rigby)

2019

German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat (Short Story) ( By: Aaron Stephan Hamilton)

2019

Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank ( By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov)

2019

The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45 (Short Story) ( By: Martin Robson)

2019

On a Knife's Edge ( By: Prit Buttar)

2019

Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 ( By: Robert Forczyk)

2019

Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II ( By: Ian Gardner)

2019

The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices ( By: William Shepherd)

2019

Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 ( By: Jeffrey R. Cox)

2020

Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time ( By: National Archives)

2020

Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness ( By: Sam McGrath)

2020

Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II ( By: Chris McNab)

2020

The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy ( By: Richard Endsor)

2020

Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18 ( By: Rob Johnson)

2020

The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 ( By: Anthony Tucker-Jones)

2020

Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 ( By: Victor Failmezger)

2020

I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway ( By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)

2020

The Reckoning ( By: Prit Buttar)

2020

Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge ( By: Angus Konstam)

2020

Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14 ( By: Ben Barry)

2020

The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? ( By: Kieran Whitworth)

2021

Warship 2021 ( By: John Jordan)

2021

Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank ( By: Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov)

2021

Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield ( By: Innes McCartney)

2021

Clive Cussler Anthologies

Thriller 2

2009

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