Clive Cussler

Born in Aurora, Illinois, on July 15, 1931, Clive Eric Cussler served in the Air Force during the Korean War. After graduating he works as a copywriter and creative director in the advertising industry. Married to Barbara Knight, he began writing when she began working nights as a California police officer. “After making dinner for my kids and putting them to bed, I had no one to talk to and nothing to do, so I decided to start writing.”

After “Danger in the Mediterranean” and “Iceberg”, Clive Cussler establishes himself with “Rescue the Titanic”, an adventure work, with many technological elements that established the pattern of his later works. All three starred Dirk Pitt, an adventurer in the service of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, who would become his most celebrated creation, appearing in more than twenty titles. 

In cinema, the character was played for the first time by Richard Jordan , in  Rescue the Titanic , from 1980, where veterans  Jason Robards  and  Alec Guinness also appeared . The film is famous because an expensive model of the Titanic was built, but it did not fit in the water tank planned for filming; In the end, a huge one had to be built, to put it in it, so the budget skyrocketed, but later the investment was not recovered at the box office. Twenty-five years had to pass before other producers took the risk of taking a work by  Clive Cussler to the movies. In Sahara , he played the character   Matthew McConaughey, accompanied in the cast by the Spanish  Penélope Cruz , and by  Steve Zahn  and  William H. Macy . Breck Eisner  made a pleasant film, but it didn’t break the box office either. For now, no attempts have been made to cover more titles.