It’s hard to believe that Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey as the intrepid explorer Dirk Pitt, was released 20 years ago.

Clive Cussler, author of the Dirk Pitt novels, died. Pic credit: HoustonPBS/YouTube Fans of mystery novels lost a true icon as the family of Clive Cussler announced that the author died at the age of ...

A search for a lost artifact drives the exciting 26th Dirk Pitt novel (after 2019’s Celtic Empire), the first solo contribution of Cussler, the son of Clive Cussler (1931–2020), to his late father’s ...

The very first fictional character I wanted to be was Encyclopedia Brown. The boy detective of Idaville was a know-it-all who didn’t get his lights punched out for being a know-it-all, partly because ...

The lukewarm 27th entry in Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series (after The Devil’s Sea) is the second solo outing from the late author’s son, who is also named Dirk. The action picks up with Pitt and Al ...

Special to The Times; Michael Harris is a regular contributor to Book Review. A very dirty bomb is headed for Los Angeles (naturally) in Clive Cussler’s latest Dirk Pitt thriller, “Black Wind,” ...

Four new books this year Just a %22diletante%22%3F After two big movie flops%2C he%27s given up on Hollywood%2C a %22weird place.%22 NEW YORK — Clive Cussler, the ...

Clive Cussler’s book covers are distinctive and striking, with bright colors and bold text and exploding submarines. The designs scream adventure, and so do the titles: “The Mediterranean Caper,” ...

Clive Cussler, the best-selling author behind the popular adventure novels about the heroic Dirk Pitt, has died. He was 88. Cussler died Monday, his wife wrote in a statement on the author’s official ...

When Dirk Pitt gets summoned to a high-level, top-secret Washington meeting to discuss urgent issues of global significance, he quips brightly, “Are James Bond and Jack Ryan coming too?” Well, they ...