Clive Cussler passes away at age of 88

[Aragorn243]

Clive Cussler has been my favorite author for many years. His books are a mixture of real history, historical fiction and modern day events. Dirk Pitt was his "James Bond", an adventurer of the seas with NUMA as his vessel.

He is a massive writer of best sellers but I'm somewhat surprised to have found out about his death from my facebook page, his wife just posted a notification.

In real life, he was instrumental in the recovery of the CSS Hunley.

If you haven't read any of his books, I highly recommend them.

He will be missed.

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[Paul S.]

I've read one or two of his books decades ago. The one I remember involved a mystery aboard a flying boat in the days just before WWII.

[browningautorifle]

I saw lots of his documentary work, sad to hear.

[pocketshaver]

the "novels" have been basically ghost written for several decades and simply have his photo on the back cover.

NOT much of anything in decades... NUMA has done a very few neat things in its times.