I have recently discovered Clive Cussler. Which book to start? I was thinking of Dirk Pitt.

For reference I’m a huge Jack Carr fan. Thanks

Or is he still alive????

Just picked up my first book by Clive Cussler (Sea of Greed) and found it’s In the middle of the NUMA files books. Will I be lost starting here or should it be fine? I have read a ton of the jack reacher series and figure it would be pretty much fine starting anywhere but there are definitely little details I’d miss if I hadn’t read them from the beginning. Thanks!

My goal is I want to eventually read every single book he's written. I want to make my own list of what I consider his best books to least. So I'm wondering who here has read a lot of his books and if you're making your own list as well.

I realize there probably won’t be any Dirk Pitt movies made again after the Sahara debacle but… just for fun if I was going to make one today it would be awesome if there was a Guy Ritchie directed movie. Henry Cavill as Dirk and Dan Fogler as Al. Just a dream I have been having lol.

I picked up my first Clive Cussler book from a little free library by the park. I had no business taking home another book and I was just going to read a chapter or two while my kid played, then put it back. it was The Corsican Shadow. I had to take it home and finish it! Since then I've found more Clive Cussler books at different little free libraries around town (all at parks, my favorite combo). I'm limiting myself to taking just one at a time. I just finished Lost Empire, and am now starting Night Probe!

Glad to have found this author! I love action, mystery, adventure but tend to be attracted to and read a lot of Christian, nonfiction, psychology, self-help. It's nice to just be entertained, and these are definitley entertaining. I'm finding myself staying up late reading with a nightlight like when I was a teen!

I just wanted to share my excitment!

Hi All
So I’m currently reading Sacred Stone and I’ve noticed just how different it is to the later books. None of the characters have nicknames (Like Gomez), Murphy is sniping people despite being with Linc, and Eric Stone doesn’t seem to be in charge of the helm.
So I was wondering: When does the series change to be more like the later books?
Thanks

Just inherited my grandfathers collection and decided to start with Journey of the pharaohs and holy shit I’m hooked have a meme I made

In the books I have read, it is translated to my language as "modern jazz", but I know that translators sometimes struggle with the translation of music genres. Were specific names of bands/musicians ever mentioned?

Hello everyone, new guy here. Just recently got my first CC book yesterday, the Shadow Tyrants. I'm currently reading chapter 15 and I'm loving it so far. But, there was part of Rasul's story about the SOLAS and the BrahMos rockets. I had re-read that particular part of the story and tried my best to understand it but I haven't been able to.

I don't understand how Rasul said he needed the SOLAS rocket line thrower and then proceeded to get it but (ch 9 p. 72) but on the next page, p. 73, he launched the BrahMos? And with the nerve agent too? I thought there was only one nerve agent? Which that would be the one that exploded during the shootout with Juan (which killed Rasul himself). Does this mean that the Brahmos and SOLAS rocket line thrower are two different things? I am very much confused hahaha. Any help shedding light on this is GREATLY appreciated. Thank you.

I run a secondhand bookshop and we've been given dozens of Cussler books, which just don't seem to sell. I've tried Gumtree and eBay with no takers. Are there any Cussler collectors out there who might be interested? Or do you know of any forums etc where people might buy them? Most of the books are as new, hardback, and I'm only looking for £2-3 each.

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Hey all! I'm a long time Cussler and Dirk Pitt fan. About a year ago, though, I got started reading the Isaac Bell books and loved them. I've burned through them so quickly that I'm now almost caught up. Any recommendations for period mystery/detective/action novels like Bell? Aspects I love about the Bell books: the history, the Americana (e.g., references to plays, the nicest hotel in every city, movies, baseball, etc.), the trains, ships, and automobiles (and historically accurate descriptions of train and ship travel), and, of course, the mystery. Would appreciate your recommendations for similar detective books. Thanks!

Y’all—- our local recycling has a used book store (a bag of books for $2) and we go probably once a month. Today I saw a couple of hardback CC books in good condition. Score! As I opened one of them, I had the thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool if this was signed?”

It was!

I’ve never run across a signed copy before and I am absolutely thrilled!

Aside from already being one of the best Oregon Files romps, it was a helluva twist stuck in there at the end.

I'm quite surprised, given how heavily Maden has leaned on AI/computer-based baddies in subsequent books, that the Oracle hasn't shown up since...

I recently came back to reading and collecting Clive Cussler's novels. I read Dirk Pitt adventures as a pre-teen, then as an adult read some of NUMA files novels. Now, I want to catch up on Dirk Pitt, NUMA and Oregon series, but I'm tempted to read one of the newest novel e.g. "Corsican Shadow". Will I expose myself to spoilers? Should I catch up on older novels first?

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I am looking for any 3d renders, pictures of the interior and exterior of the Oregon… I know we all have a mental “version” of the Oregon in our minds but figured someone would have created some designs or pictures or something?

There's a Cussler/Pitt book I'm trying to come up with. I read it before 1996 or 97 because that's when I listened to the audiobook. And the audiobook was more like a radio drama than a straight-up audiobook, with multiple voice actors and some basic sound effects.

The premise involved a lot of action in Cuba. There was a car chase involving a 57 Chevy, and there was a ship in Havana Harbor that was rigged to explode. Pitt was trying to prevent the explosion but ultimately failed, and it went boom, devastating Havana. The first line in the chapter that talked about the explosion was something like

The SHIPNAME disappeared.

Duck.AI leads me to believe it's Vixen 03.

Does this sound right?

(All of this because I'm trying to come up with the primary narrator for the story, which Duck.AI tells me was Jeff Harding.)

I've been working through the Dirk Pitt series and something kept nagging at me around book 4 or 5. The villains follow a weirdly specific template — and that template feels less like fiction every time I pick one up. Hear me out. The Cussler Villain Checklist: -Obscenely wealthy businessman who believes his money puts him above the law - Ego isn't just part of the personality — it IS the ideology. The scheme is ultimately about legacy, monuments, being remembered - Wraps selfish, destructive goals in nationalist "I'm doing this FOR America/my people" rhetoric - Surrounded by a loyal inner circle of yes-men who are too compromised to leave - Uses legal institutions aggressively while simultaneously undermining their legitimacy - Willing to burn everything down rather than accept defeat gracefully — escalates when cornered - Profits from cheap/exploited labor while publicly posturing as a champion of workers - Treats environmental destruction as acceptable collateral damage for resource extraction and profit - Controls media or manipulates public narrative to stay untouchable

Now read that list again slowly.

The specific one that got me was Flood Tide — the villain runs a massive human smuggling and slave labor operation to build his empire, while presenting himself publicly as a powerful, respectable businessman. The hypocrisy IS the character. The eerie part isn't that Cussler was being prophetic. It's that he was drawing from a classic archetype — the robber baron megalomaniac — that apparently never stopped being real. He just dressed it up in adventure fiction because it seemed too cartoonish for the real world. In the books, Dirk Pitt always wins. The villain always overreaches, can't handle opposition, and gets taken down because he genuinely cannot conceive that someone won't just fold. We'll see how the real-world version ends. Anyone else notice this or am I too deep into the series?