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Clive Cussler, million-selling adventure writer, dies at 88

by AP National Writer
| February 28, 2020 12:05 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Clive Cussler, the million-selling adventure writer and real-life thrill-seeker who wove personal details and spectacular fantasies into his page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt, has died, his publisher said Wednesday.

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