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

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The climax is pure Cussler. The battleship Iowa steams upriver to Washington, D.C. with Fawkes at
the helm, determined to deliver his deadly cargo and discredit the African Freedom Fighters he believes
murdered his family.
The man-as-a-woman, or, more accurately here, woman-as-a-man, theme used in Iceberg shows up
here as well. A shadowy spy we are led to believe is a man is found out after she is killed to be a woman.
In the next-to-the-last section, Pitt travels to Africa and buries Fawkes. He then explains that he
knows that Operation Wild Rose was an attempt to topple the current government of South Africa so
that the defense minister could take over. De Vaal, the defense minister, is then killed. The novel ends
with Rongelo Island, the last location in the world with any QD, being struck by a nuclear bomb that
eradicates the last trace of the deadly poison.
Night Probe!
Following the publication ofVixen 03 , Clive started writingNight Probe! Unlike his normal schedule
of publishing a new Pitt book every two years,Night Probe! didn't show up until 1981, three years after
Vixen 03 went on sale. Part of the time lag was due to a switch in publishers. Clive had been having
trouble with Viking for some time.
The book tour forVixen 03 was a farce, the promotion and marketing of the book almost nonexistent.
Clive desperately wanted to change publishers, but book contracts specify that the current publisher
has an option on the next book created by the author.
This practice is still widespread in the publishing business. For publishers, it protects them if a writer's
works suddenly become hot.
For writers, it locks them into a first right of refusal on their next work.