"I look upon myself more as an entertainer than merely a writer," Clive Cussler told Connie Lauerman of the Chicago Tribune. "It's my job to entertain the reader in such a manner that he or she feels that they received their money's worth when they...

The perennial appeal of his adventure series hero has surprised even his creator They told him it couldn't be done, that America wouldn't buy suspense-adventure novels, that he was a fool to feature a continuing hero. But Clive Cussler has proved them...

I was in the service and stationed out in the Pacific during the Korean War. I got really into diving. [In 1951], a friend and I sent for a tank and regulator and the only place, then, you could buy it from was...

Best-selling author Clive Cussler said he sued the makers of the film version of his book "Sahara" because they hadn't listened to him and made his agent mad."They were going ahead and producing it without my approval," Cussler said in a 2005 deposition played Friday...

The legal adventures of Clive Cussler took a new twist Tuesday when attorneys for the writer and the producers of the 2005 film "Sahara" each argued their clients were the real winners in a breach-of-contract case decided last May.Jurors ruled May 15 that Cussler, regarded...