Sacred Stone

Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. 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, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler is an internation...

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 Hu...