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

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Brief Synopses of the Dirk Pitt Novels
Pacific Vortex
Pacific Vortextruly should be considered the first Pitt novel. Though it was published in the time span
betweenNight Probe! andDeep Six , it was the first Pitt novel Clive wrote. As one of the two
manuscripts originally sent to Peter Lampack when Clive was seeking an agent, it languished on a shelf in
Clive's closet until he casually mentioned it to his publisher, which at that time was Bantam Books.
Upon learning that there was an unpublished Pitt novel, it was decided to introduce the book in a
paperback-only edition. Clive dusted off the manuscript and did a quick rewrite. The name of the villain
Delphi Ea was changed somewhere along the line to Delphi Moran, something Clive was still unaware of
when it was mentioned to him last year.
Because it lacks the complex plotting and detailed writing of the later Pitt efforts, Clive wrote a
disclaimer of sorts as the foreword, explaining that the novel was not up to his usual standards.
An interesting side note toPacific Vortex is that Peter Lampack, Clive's agent, was adamantly
opposed to the novel being published.
Telling Clive that the novel would be his ruin, he scheduled a vacation in Jamaica to coincide with the
introduction. When the novel almost immediately reached number two on theNew York Times
paperback best-seller list, Clive called Western Union and sent an I-told-you-so telegram to Lampack in
Jamaica.
The plot ofPacific Vortex is straightforward enough.