History Creator / CliveCussler

* ''Dark Vector'' : The ex-husband of one of Austin's colleagues botches a multimillion-dollar heist at sea...and unfortunately, the debt for failure passes to her. The mastermind of the heist intends to press her into his service to succeed where her ex-husband failed, but matters are complicated when Austin is ordered by the American Government to locate the failed heist's loot as well. Now, the both of them, and the rest of NUMA, get involved in a global cyber-war, one involving both criminal masterminds and shady government agencies and those who would stop at nothing to get their hands on a prize that could grant them control of the world's flow of digital information.

* ''Dark Vector'' : The ex-husband of one of Austin's colleague botches a multimillion-dollar heist at sea...and unfortunately, the debt for failure passes to her. The mastermind of the heist intends to press her into his service to succeed where her ex-husband failed, but matters are complicated when Austin is ordered by the American Government to locate the failed heist's loot as well. Now, the both of them, and the rest of NUMA, get involved in a global cyber-war, one involving both criminal masterminds and shady government agencies and those who would stop at nothing to get their hands on a prize that could grant them control of the world's flow of digital information.

* ''Wrath of Poseidon'': Ten years ago, Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet met by chance while each was hunting the treasure of the Persian King Croesus. While they failed to find it, they did defeat a drug smuggling operation while falling in love. Now, the pair have a chance to find it...but must contend with the drug lord they foiled a decade ago who's out for revenge...

* ''The Assassin'' : As the Van Dorns investigate into Rockefeller's Standard Oil, things become deadly when an unknown sniper begins targeting Standard Oil opponents and sabotaging independent operations. As Bell tracks his adversary, he finds himself racing across the globe to track them down...but with treachery in every step, the killer may be much closer than he thinks.

* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The first NUMA Files book, ''Serpent'', had a BigBad who not only wanted to [[MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack make himself leader of a country called Angelica formed from the Southwest plus Mexico]], but also had contingencies in place for the Chinese-controlled Pacifica, plus Quebec separating from Canada and the Maritime Provinces, cut off from the rest of the country, joining the remainder of the USA.

* ForegoneConclusion: ''The Chase'' had been intended to be a simple stand-alone novel and thus Cussler put in an epilogue revealing that in 1953, Isaac Bell was still alive and married to Marion (the bank manager he met in the adventure) with several children. When the book became a big enough success to start a series, it meant readers already knew Bell and Marion would survive any adventure set in the early 1910s and '20s.

* ''Serpent'' : Austin becomes the target of a ruthless Texas industrialist Don Halcon, who plans to forge his own empire out of Mexico and the American Southwest. The key to Halcon's plan is a pre-Colombian artifact sealed within the sunken Italian cruise liner ''Andrea Dorea'', so Austin races to recover it before Halcon does - while avoiding Halcon's hitmen along the way.

* ''The NUMA Files''

* ''White Death'' : Austin narrowly comes to the rescue in saving the trapped crews of a Danish cruiser and the environmentalist ship that collided it, but while investigating the incident, he begins to realize that there is more to the environmentalists that meets the eye - and that he has just become a target. Narrowly escaping assassination attempt after assassination attempt, Austin and NUMA race to prevent a massive environmental disaster that could devastate the world's natural fish population and replace them with vicious genetically-engineered superfish.

* ''Trojan Odyssey''

** ''The Titanic Secret'' is one both for the Issac Bell and Dirk Pitt novels. As stated above, Bell will survive the 1912-portion of the novel. Those who've read ''Raise the Titanic'' will likewise know that of all the Colorado miners, Joshua Brewster alone will survive the chase to Southampton...or at least up until he [[DoomedByCanon boards ''Titanic'']].

** ''The Titanic Secret'' is one both for the Issac Bell and Dirk Pitt novels. As stated above, Bell will survive the 1912-portion of the novel. Those who've read ''Raise the Titanic'' will likewise know that of all the
Colorado miners, Joshua Brewster alone will survive the events of the novel...or at least up until he [[DoomedByCanon boards ''Titanic'']].

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Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American ActionAdventure writer, often referred to as the grandmaster of adventure. While he was most known for his Literature/DirkPittAdventures series, he wrote over 50 different adventure novels in five separate series of books, although he more recently cowrote them with other authors. Cussler also has a son, Dirk, who often cowrites the series with him as well as a collection of classic cars, specimens of which often pop up in his books.
The series themselves are:

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Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 - February 24, 2020) was an American ActionAdventure writer, often referred to as the grandmaster of adventure. While he was most known for his Literature/DirkPittAdventures series, he wrote over 50 different adventure novels in five separate series of books, although he more recently cowrote them with other authors. Cussler also has a son, Dirk, who often cowrites the series with him as well as a collection of classic cars, specimens of which often pop up in his books.

* ''Raise the Titanic''

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: A rather humorous moment in ''The Pharaoh's Secret'' sees an elevator full of [[Mooks security guards]] open the lift doors, be met by Joe holding [[MoreDakka two machine guns]], stare at him for a moment, then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere silently press the button to go back to the floor they came from.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: A rather humorous moment in ''The Pharaoh's Secret'' sees an elevator full of [[Main/Mooks security guards]] open the lift doors, be met by Joe holding [[MoreDakka two machine guns]], stare at him for a moment, then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere silently press the button to go back to the floor they came from.]]

Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931) is an American ActionAdventure writer, and is often referred to as the grandmaster of adventure. While he is most known for his Literature/DirkPittAdventures series, he has written over 50 different adventure novels in five separate series of books, although he has more recently been cowriting most of them with other authors. Cussler also has a son, Dirk, who often cowrites the series with him as well as a collection of classic cars, specimens of which often pop up in his books.

* RevealingCoverUp: A recurring plot device in the Fargo Adventures. The Fargos find some obscure item which is at least four steps away from in one case an artifact the villain wanted to find, and in another a secret the villain wants to conceal. So the villain sends assassins after them, letting the Fargos know that their totally innocuous discovery was important somehow. Had they just purchased the item at a fair price, or simply ignored them entirely, the villain would have succeeded.

* ''Sea of Greed'' : Austin is given a case by the President of the United States to solve the mystery behind the destruction of three oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. What Austin discovers, however, is something much more alarming: Oil, the lifeblood behind the modern world, is being eaten away by a form of bacteria, one that was thought lost in the Mediterranean Sea more than 60 years ago. His investigation results in him crossing paths with a genius billionaire in the alternative fuels industry, but she has her own agenda to follow, one that may require Kurt and his friends meeting a gristly end lest they interfere.

** ''Literature/PacifixVortex''

* ''Sea of Greed'' : Austin is given a case by the President of the United States to solve the mystery behind the destruction of three oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. What Austin discovers, however, is something much more alarming: Oil, the lifeblood behind the modern world, is being eaten away by a form of bacteria, one that was thought lost in the Mediterranean Sea more than 60 years ago. His investigation results in an encounter with a genius billionaire in the alternative fuels industry, but Kurt isn't sure if she can be trusted...and with killers on his trail and a worldwide disaster mounting, the clock is ticking fast.

* ''Pacific Vortex''[[labelnote:*]]While ''Pacific Vortex'' was the first book to be written, it was the sixth to be published.[[/labelnote]]

* ''Literature/DevilsGate''

* ''Flood Tide''