The Bootlegger

Clive and Justin

At the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale

Signing the latest in the Isaac Bell Series

The Bootlegger

 

 

Wednesday March 5th 2014

7 pm



Congratulations Clive on forty years of Adventure writing

The Bootlegger, March 2014

The  Bootlegger

It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell’s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn’t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn’s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs—and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.

 

US and UK Editions

 

Clive will be at the Poisoned Pen

 Clive will be at the Poisoned Pen tonight for the release of a new Oregon Files with Jack Du Brul "MIRAGE" Hard Copy

Signing starts 7.00pm

Also released in paper back is the Dirk Pitt Novel Poseidon's Arrow, with Dirk Cussler

Vin Fiz Promotion Product

Clive Cussler Children's Book, The Adventures Of "Vin Fiz"

 

Vin Fiz Promotional Grape Soda Bottles

These Vin Fiz grape soda bottles were sent out as a promotional item to book sellers for the release of Clive Cussler's children book, Vin Fiz.

This was acquired at the last Cussler Convention in Denver

People have asked, why did Clive use a bottle of Vin Fiz grape soda to promote his book ?

In 1911 the first transcontinental flight by Rogers, was sponsored by the Grape Soda, he had the "Vin Fiz" printed on the bottom of the planes wings and rudder tail, the trip took 49 days.

Hot off the press

The NUMA Files

"GHOST SHIP"

 

By Clive Cussler and Graham Brown

The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from the grand master of adventure.

When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn’t trust either version of his recollection.

Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists,

 

Due out May 27th, 2014

MIRAGE (Oregon Files)

The extraordinary new novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series from the grand master of adventure.

In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax—but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure.

There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America’s interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies? As Cabrillo races to find the truth, he discovers there is even more at stake than he could have imagined—but by the time he
realizes it, he may already be too late.

 

 

Release date November 19th, 2013

New Release

On Sale September 3

THE MAYAN SECRETS
A Fargo Adventure
by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry

The outstanding new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery—the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them—as the Fargos are about to find out.

Before their adventure is done, many men and women will die for that book—and Sam and Remi may just be among them.

Advance Reading Copies (ARCs)

The  Mediterranean Caper (ARC)

A new addition to my collection, is the Advance Reading Copies (ARCs) of Clive’s books, is the one for the 40th anniversary edition of "The Mediterranean Caper".  Released this July as a Putnam hardcover, The  Mediterranean Caper, this was Clive’s first published book and it appears that an ARC was not done not for the Pyramid paperback version forty years ago. As a  result, having an ARC of Clive’s debut book in a collection can be a new cornerstone. Plus, unlike other ARCs produced for Clive’s newly-released  books, there were only around 50 or so made for The Mediterranean Caper, an exceedingly small print run for this type of edition, which will make this very rare. The ARC for the 40th  anniversary edition does include a new Foreword, penned by Clive, 

Information on this ARC and other Cussler books can also be found at :-

Wayne Valero's Blog on Collecting Clive Cussler

The Tombs

 

Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry

Paperback release of "The Tombs"

OUT NOW

40th Anniversary

 

Today we see the release of the first book published by Clive Cussler

 

The 40th Anniversary release in hardcover of

 

The Mediterranean Caper 

 

 

The Bootlegger

Clive Cussler / Justin Scott

 

Isaac Bell Detective Series -

 

 

March 2014

The Clive Cussler Collector's Society is proud to announce its Ninth Annual Convention.  This years event will be held in Denver, Colorado on October 11-12-13 of 2013. Click on the link above for more information.

The Saloon Keeper's Verse, a story / by Clive Cussler

One of the pieces I would like to add to collection would be a beer bottle with the verse

 "The Saloon Keeper's Verse" by Clive Cussler on the label.

These bottles were done by a local Denver brewery.

 

Clive Cussler 40th Anniversary of his first book in UK Mayday

 

Signed copies are available from the Poisoned Pen

More Additions coming to my Cussler Collection

This is the book with the author's first name mis-spelled as "Cliver" on the spine of the book.

 

 

 

UK Edition of Pacific Vortex

 

The Four M's

This year we have seen the release of The Striker, and Zero Hour

 

Now we await the release of the four M's

 

 

June : Release of the 40th Anniversary "Mayday"

 

July : Release of the 40th Anniversary "Mediterranean Caper"

 

 

September : Release of a Fargo Series "Mayan Secrets" with Thomas Perry

 

 

November : Release of the a Oregon Files "Mirage" with Jack Du Brul

The Mediterranean Caper

Clive Cussler

US Release July 16th 2013



 

 

Paper Back Releases this year

 

May "The Storm"

Aug "The Tombs"

Nov "Poseidon's Arrow"

The Mayan Secrets (September release)

 Clive Cussler, Thomas Perry with a new Fargo Adventure

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery—the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them—as the Fargos are about to find out.

Before their adventure is done, many men and women will die for that book—and Sam and Remi may just be among them.

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First : 40th Anniversary cover of the UK edition

 

 

Clive Cussler

 

"MAYDAY"

40th Anniversary released this June

 

(Released asThe Mediterranean Caper in the US)

Due to be released July

 

 

Raise the Titanic Model for the film langushes in Malta

Raise the Titanic Model Languishes in Malta

 THE weather-beaten remains of the giant model used for the 1981 film "Raise the Titanic" is rapidly disintegrating in the village of Kalkara, Malta.

The 55-foot-long steel hull now provides an uncanny above-sea-level glimpse into how the real vessel is faring some two miles below the surface of the North Atlantic.

Nearly a quarter of a century of decay has been the model's lot since the movie, which lost £10 million and holed below the waterline Lord Lew Grade's attempt to break into Hollywood.

The natural deterioration was given a huge helping hand in January 2003 when a Force 12 storm hit the Mediterranean Film Studios on the island, where the model resides.

The storm did considerable damage, including knocking the third funnel onto the port side and stripping plates from the aftermost stack.

The result is that the structure now looks sorry indeed - and threatens to resemble the tangle of metal that is the real Titanic on the sea bed.

It is all a far cry from Lord Lew Grade's original demand that the model should be a perfect representation of the original in absolutely every detail.

It’s hard to believe that what you see here actually cost £3 million more to build and fit out than the original Titanic!

Grade's model had exactly the right number of portholes, a second skin like the original (which no-one would ever see), plus interior funnel details that were likewise invisible on screen.

A £2 million tank - 350ft across and 35ft deep - was specially built in Malta to take Lew Grade's Titanic. The tank takes nine million gallons of water and fills in about fifteen hours.

The tank remains in regular film use in Kalkara, but the Titanic is largely abandoned, having briefly impersonated her sister ship, Britannic, in a made for TV movie.

The storm now seems to have sealed her fate as an actress.

The remains of the giant model can be viewed by appointment at the Mediterranean Film Studios by visitors to Malta.

www.mfsstudios.com

Picture show damage to the Titanic model in Malta.

ZERO HOUR

Released date May 28th 2013

The new Clive Cussler and Graham Brown Novel from the NUMA files

(A Kurt Austin Adventure)

 

 

 

The Mediterranean Caper

40th Anniversary Edition (Signed)

 

 

 

 

Available for pre-order from the Poisoned Pen

also the UK Edition "Mayday"

June/July 2013



The Striker Signing

The new Issac Bell Detective novel

 

"The Striker"

 

With Clive Cussler, Justin Scott and Ilustrator/Artist Roland Dahlquist

 

At the Poisoned Pen Bookstore Scottsdale