Craig Dirgo

Craig Dirgo is an American author of adventure and techno-thriller novels, as well as non-fiction. The son of an Air Force colonel, he spent much of his childhood on military airfields in the United States and England.

In 1987 he began working as a special projects director on expeditions for Clive Cussler's National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), later becoming a trustee of the organization.

Dirgo co-wrote several books with Cussler, including the non-fiction shipwreck accounts The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II and the first two novels in the Oregon Files series, Golden Buddha and Sacred Stone. He has also written solo novels, including The Einstein Papers and Tremor, featuring his own recurring character, John Taft.