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

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To fulfill his obligation, Clive submitted a book on advertising he had written,I Went to Denver but It
Was Closed . It was promptly rejected.
Cussler was now free to change publishers. Clive is rather unique as a writer. Each of his books has
outsold the one before. In addition, each has easily paid back the advance and made his publishers
money.
This is less frequent than one might believe. Look at the advances paid to people like Dan Quayle. Did
they really sell enough copies of their books to justify the millions paid in advance money?
Landing at Bantam, a paperback house that wanted to branch out in hardcover,Night Probe! was
published in hardcover in 1981, followed a year later by the paperback edition. For his new publisher,
Clive delivered what he and others consider his best plot.
As the book begins in the past, we learn that copies of a treaty between the United States and Great
Britain have been lost almost simultaneously in a pair of freak accidents. One copy is lost when a ship
sinks, one when a train plunges into a river.
The book is timely. The United States is in the midst of an energy crisis, as it was in 1981, and Canada
controls most of the hydroelectric power feeding the Eastern Seaboard. We learn that the treaty
concerns Great Britain, in the midst of a financial crisis just before World War I, selling Canada to the
United States.
Beautifully sub plotted with a group of Canadian separatists, a British secret agent modeled after
James Bond and a mystery train that appears like a wraith in the night, the novel moves with a smooth
style. It is action-adventure at its best. Heidi Milligan, who was first introduced inVixen 03 , is a Pitt love
interest who falls for Brian Shaw, the British secret agent. Giordino has a large part, and Sandecker,
Gunn and most of the other continuing characters appear. The primary villain, Foss Gly, who appears in a
later Pitt novel, is described in detail.
There are plenty of underwater scenes for the diehard Pitt fan. And the tools NUMA uses to locate
shipwrecks are beautifully detailed and explained. Pitt pursues his hobby of collecting old cars by
attending an auction.