FICTION
Released: June 1, 1992
"For the faithful."
Not since Treasure (1988), when Dirk Pitt discovered Cleopatra's barge in Texas (or was it on the Mississippi Delta?), has Cussler come up with so far-fetched a story as this herein, the tenth Pitt novel.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 2, 1996
"Tireless mechanical nomenclature, but furious storytelling."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1996
"The lively text includes a number of handsome, helpful maps, plus line drawings of designated vessels and the vanished locomotive."
Life has imitated pop art in the case of best-selling author Cussler (Shock Wave, 1996; Sahara, 1992; etc.), whose avocation is locating great ships lost in deep waters.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 25, 1997
"Speedy storytelling and great fun."
Dirk Pitt returns for his 11th undersea adventure (Shock Wave, 1996, etc.), still as far out and full of derring-do as ever.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 1999
"Cussler fans will have no complaint as the Master revs up his novel to 40 knots per hour and sweeps the reader into the fabled past."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 13, 2001
"Who is in top form here, easily tying together Viking relics, a Confederate submarine, and a lost ship running on seawater as Pitt's past rises up to claim him."
The ever-kinetic Cussler brings back Dirk Pitt, who recently discovered the lost continent of Atlantis in Antarctica (
Atlantis Found, 1999).
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FICTION
Released: June 3, 2002
"Fans may miss Dirk Pitt, but the story goes down like a chilled Stolichnaya martini."
Following trade paperback originals Serpent (1999) and Blue Gold (2001), this third dual-authored novel "from the NUMA Files" leaps to hardcover status.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 2, 2002
"A lively narrative slickly done: nothing wrong with that, but intelligent readers who like their history straight up may find it simply annoying."
The creator of the immensely popular series of marine and underwater adventures starring Dirk Pitt (
Valhalla Rising, 2001, etc.) returns with a sequel to his nonfiction
Sea Hunters (1996).
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2003
"Zestful heroics. Should rise to the top like one of Cussler's real-life lost ships."
Fourth in the new, co-authored, Kurt Austin series (
Fire Ice, 2002, etc.), which has been received with restrained jubilance.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 7, 2003
"Honestly fabulous."
FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2003
"Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous."
Clive the Mighty has found a formula for his terrific escapist plots and sees no reason to alter it.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2004
"The usual Cussler the Incredible, crammed with endless technological detail and ablaze with action."
The multitudes of fans awaiting each new work the Mighty Cussler Factory pumps out must wonder which Cussler they'll get next.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2004
"A father-son action thriller penned by a father-son team that more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger. Don't stir that silt!"
Eighteenth Dirk Pitt underwater sea-thriller (
Trojan Odyssey, 2003, etc.), now co-authored with Cussler's son Dirk.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 30, 2005
"Glacial pace, paper-thin characters, slap-dash prose and a probable warm welcome from a large and loyal audience."
When the earth's poles are apart, everyone's comfy. Shift them a bit, you get headaches. Shift them a lot, you're in for cataclysm.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2007
"A small--very small--step up from Saturday morning adventure cartoons."
A super-evil, swarthy zillionaire locks horns with the super-good, fabulously resourceful Kurt Austin (
Polar Shift, 2005, etc.) of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency (NUMA).
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2007
"Thin characters, fat plot-holes, sluggish pacing and Cussler's signature clunky prose."
The smartest shamus on earth tracks the planet's cleverest lowlife in the latest to roll from the Cussler assembly line (
Polar Shift, 2005, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"Cussler, writing with his son, once again blends history, technical knowledge, bombs, bullets and betrayal into cinematic action."
Mix terrorists, Roman artifacts, delusions of dynasty and irrefutable physical evidence that Jesus of Nazareth lived, then add water--from the Mediterranean Sea--and you get another aquatic adventure starring Dirk Pitt and his colleagues at NUMA.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 15, 2011
"Vintage Cussler (Crescent Dawn, 2010, etc.), and just right for the armchair techie who likes his action nonstop and his characters uncomplicated. Nuance-seekers look elsewhere."
In Cussler's latest, this time with Brown co-authoring, an African dictator decides he gets no respect, and so woe betide the world.
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FICTION
Released: May 29, 2012
"Classic Cussler: testosterone-driven action, over-the-horizon technical wizardry, beautiful and talented women and exotic locations."
Cussler (
Devil's Gate, 2011, etc.), with co-author Brown, dips into the NUMA Files for another Kurt Austin action-on-the-sea escapade.
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