R.I.P Clive Cussler-Raise The Titanic-Dirk Pitt

[pete9012S]

R.I.P Clive Cussler
(July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020)

Somehow missed this sad news. I have been an avid collector and reader of his books over the years.
I corresponded with him and he sent me some genuine signed draft pages of the previous book he had then released.
A true gent.

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I think I will have to re-read Treasure from 1988 which was the first book I read by him - If you like high adventure with history and thrills and spills I'm sure you would enjoy his work..

Farewell to a friend, Clive Cussler
He was an author, an adventurer and ambassador for the car collecting hobby. He also was my friend

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[Lucky Star]

Very interesting Pete. He was quite a guy, setting up NUMA to find lost ships and collecting classic cars. I too read his books avidly up to about ten years ago when I stopped. I did so because I began to feel that many of them were not so good anymore, probably as a result of all the collaborations he was doing with other writers. I did hear that he was just providing ideas and the others were doing most of the writing! No idea how true that is but certainly there was a noticeable drop off in quality between his earlier self penned books and the later collaborative ones.

I also got fed up with is constant product placements. He was obviously getting a lot of money for advertising certain products in his books. But when he dies a few months ago my local library did a big RIP display and had lots of his best books on a special table.