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Devil’s Gate (Putnam $27.95) is the extraordinary new novel in the #1 New York Times- bestselling NUMA Files series.
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster- when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world’s major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.
Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Devil’s Gate is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.
Clive Cussler (http://www.clive-cussler-books.com/) Clive Cussler, the Grand Master of Adventure, grew up in Alhambra, California.
He later attended Pasadena City College for two years, but then enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War where he served as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer in the Military Air Transport Service. Upon his discharge, he became a copywriter and later creative director for two leading ad agencies. At that time, he wrote and produced radio and television commercials that won numerous international awards one at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
Clive Cussler began writing in 1965 and published his first novel featuring Dirk Pitt® in 1973. His first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. Because of this work the Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May of 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.
Clive is the founder of the National Underwater & Marine Agency, (NUMA) a non-profit organisation that dedicates itself to American maritime and naval history.You can visit the non profit organization online by (clicking here).Cussler and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered over 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites. After verifying their finds, NUMA turns the rights to the artifacts over to non-profits, universities, or government entities all over the world. Some of these finds include the C.S.S. Hunley, best known as the first submarine to sink a ship in battle and the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania. In addition to being Chairman of NUMA, Cussler is a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London.
A noted collector of classic automobiles, Clive owns over 100 of the finest examples of custom coachwork and 50′s convertibles to be found anywhere. They are garaged near Golden, Colorado. You can visit the museum online by (clicking here). Today, Cussler divides his time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.
Over the years many of Clive’s fans have posed many a question to him on various topics. You can review a list of the frequently asked questions (Faqs) by (clicking here)
Graham Brown (http://www.authorgrahambrown.com/) grew up in Illinois, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. His father worked for the airlines so they moved a lot and traveled often. He went to college in Arizona, earning a degree in Aeronautical Science from Embry Riddle and learning how to fly single and multi-engined aircraft.
After graduating in December he foolishly went back to Pennsylvania. Several blizzards and an ice storm later, he loaded up his 20 year old car, taped the bumper back on and drove west looking for sunshine.
A few years later he went to Law School at Arizona State where he spent many lectures pretending to listen, while scribbling down notes for what he hoped would be a great novel.
After graduating and working as an attorney for a couple of years, he decided to see if there were any good ideas in all those notes. He began writing in his spare time and attending writer’s conferences and retreats.
In 2007 he signed with Barbara Poelle of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. A year later, Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, bought the rights to BLACK RAIN in a multi-book deal. Foreign rights versions have been sold to seven countries so far. The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, Israel and Poland.
Graham is currently working on the next Hawker novel as well as a collaboration with Clive Cussler, finishing a pair of screenplays and praying for it to snow in Colorado so he can go skiing. Funny thing, moving to Arizona to escape the snow and then flying all over the place just to find it.
