New Cussler novel by Justin Scott

I made a nice discovery on Amazon UK last night. Justin Scott, one of my favourite authors, is co-writing a new novel with Clive Cussler called The Wrecker. It's due out later this year but there are no details yet.

It was during the 1990s that I started reading novels by Scott. Among my favourites were A Pride of Kings (A Pride of Royals in the US) set in revolutionary Russia, The Man Who Loved the Normandie (Normandie Triangle in the US) set in New York during the early years of WW2 and The Empty Eye of the Sea, a modern day sea adventure that only seems to have been published in the UK. Scott went on to write some entertaining mysteries set in New England.


Then in 1998 I read a book called Fire and Ice by an author called Paul Garrison. The characters and situations reminded me strongly of characters from a Justin Scott novel called The Shipkiller. It turned out to be Justin Scott writing under a pen-name.

His website can be found at http://www.seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com/

If I find a "blurb" or cover image for The Wrecker I will post it here.

Clive Cussler Sahara reissue

I spotted this new Harper paperback edition of Sahara in Waterstones yesterday. It appears to be another Larry Rostant cover in keeping with those published already by Penguin, Harper and Sphere.

Clive Cussler reissues

I read a few Clive Cussler novels back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Lately I've 'rediscovered' the books and I intend to catch up with the many that I haven't read.

Sphere books in the UK are gradually reissuing their back catalog of his earlier books to match the cover art that the other publishers of his books are using. They are even using the Larry Rostant, the same cover artist that HarperCollins and Penguin use for their Cussler books.

Anyway, here are the next two covers for Deep Six and Cyclops from http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/About/Imprints/Sphere

Cussler's books tend to be a bit far-fetched. The Dirk Pitt character is a James Bond style agent who has maritime expertise. I do like the inclusion of an historical mystery that usually gets the story started.

In any event I'm quite partial for any thriller that manages to put a space shuttle on the cover so I'm sure I'll be picking up a copy of Cyclops!

Just for comparison here's the HarperCollins cover for Treasure.

Here's the link to Larry Rostant's website: http://www.rostant.com/

If you've bough a novel in the UK recently the chances are he did the cover art.

As a side note it interesting that Sphere books has made a comeback as an imprint. I bought a lot of their thrillers in the late 1980s so I noticed when they transformed into Warner Books in the early 1990s. Later they changed again and became Time Warner Paperbacks.