No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Clive Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. Cussler is a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Explorers Club of New York. Cussler’s books have been published in more than forty languages in more than a hundred countries. He lives in Arizona.