Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed By Clive Cussler with Craig ...

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Walks with a loose grace that is impossible for most men. Wore an Omega watch early on but now is
known for wearing an orange-face Dora dive watch. Quit smoking years ago. Changed from Cutty Sark
to Bombay Gin to Sauza Commemorativo tequila over the years but also enjoys a glass of fine wine and
an occasional beer. Main exercise is scuba diving. His favorite pastime is restoring and showing antique
and classic cars. Astrological sign: Cancer. Chinese sign: born in the Year of the Rat.
Pitt, George.Served in World War II, then worked his way through law school selling cars. Dirk
Pitt's father and senior senator from California. Elected to the Senate the same year as the president in
Deep Six . Head of the Naval Appropriations Committee. Heads up the Senate Committee for Oil
Exploration on Government Lands. Heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Known as the
Socrates of the Senate. InVixen 03 , he tells Daggat he plans to retire next year but changes his mind.
Married to the former Barbara Nash, who was named Susan in Dragon. Lives in a colonial home on
Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. Owns a ski chalet in Breckenridge, Colorado. Known for
wearing expensive suits with a California golden poppy in the lapel.
Pochinsky, Zerri.Secretary to Dirk Pitt. A lively type, with a contagious smile and hazel eyes. Thirty
years old at the time ofNight Probe! she has never married. Full-bodied with long, fawn-colored hair
that falls below her shoulders. Pitt has considered having an affair with her, but he doesn't believe in
messing around with his staff.
Sandecker, Admiral James.Graduated U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1939. Made flag rank in the
Navy before age fifty. Once served on the U.S.S.Iowa . Last command was the Navy guided-missile
cruiser Tucson. InNight Probe! he is listed as age sixty-one. Lives in a condominium at the Watergate in
Washington, D.C. six miles from the NUMA headquarters. Height is a few inches over five feet. Has a
thick head of red hair that shows little indication of white. Has a precisely trimmed red Van Dyke beard.
Has cold, authoritative blue eyes. Sleeps only four hours a night. Long divorced, he has a daughter and
three grandchildren who five in Hong Kong. A vegetarian and health nut, he jogs and lifts weights. Takes
numerous vitamins including garlic pills every day. Smokes ten custom made cigars a day. Likes to dine
at the Army and Navy Club. Also a member of the John Paul Jones Club. Has an old Navy
double-ender whale boat he cruises on Sundays on the Potomac River for relaxation. After retiring from
the Navy, he was made the chief director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency by
then-President Ford. When he began at NUMA, it was an insignificant eighty-person agency. He built
NUMA into a massive organization of five thousand scientists and employees with an annual budget that
exceeds four hundred million dollars.
Smith, Loren.Congresswoman from Colorado's Seventh Distnct, the district west of the Continental
Divide. Her family has ranched the western slope of Colorado since the 1870s. Educated at the
University of Colorado. Height is five feet eight inches. Age at the time ofDeep Six is thirty-seven. She
has cinnamon-colored hair cut long to frame her prominent cheekbones. Violet-colored eyes. Never
married. Chest measurement is 34-B. At the time of Inca Gold, she is a five-term congresswoman. Lives
in a townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia. Owns a cat named Ichabod. Dates Dirk Pitt, whom she met at a
lawn party given by the secretary of the envirorunent ten years ago.