Prior to teaming with Clive Cussler on the Isaac Bell series, Justin Scott published twenty-three thrillers and mystery novels, including The Shipkiller, Normandie Triangle, A Pride of Royals, Rampage, The Widow of Desire, and The Nine Dragons.  Using the pen name of Paul Garrison, Justin wrote five bestselling sea adventures starting with Fire and Ice (1998 NY: HarperCollins).

“The partnership between Clive and Justin is like a gift to the adventure genre junkie” says John Hutchinson of Norwood Press.  “The reader is guaranteed to be taken on the ride of a lifetime with these two terrific writers.”

In The Wrecker (2009 NY: Penguin), it is 1907 and train wrecks, fires and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line.  Desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, where top investigator Isaac Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West.  “The Wrecker travels the American West causing damage and loss of human life, but no one knows who he is or what he wants” reports Hutchinson.  “It will keep you turning pages until the very end.”

Norwood Press is offering signed, limited lettered and numbered editions of Clive and Justin’s upcoming work The Wrecker.

Limited lettered editions are hand-signed by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.  Lettered editions are lettered A-ZZ and come in a fully marbled slip- (more…)

Adventure writers Clive Cussler (Medusa) and Grant Blackwood (An Echo of War) collaborated to create a new “land-based” Cussler Series. Their efforts produced Spartan Gold (2009 Penguin) the first Fargo Adventure. It is an explosive, adrenaline-charged adventure that Cussler fans will want to get their hands on.

“Spartan Gold is our 19^th Cussler limited edition work,” reports John Hutchinson of Norwood Press.  “We are very appreciative of our relationship with Clive and his co-authors.  It is always exciting to bring a new title to the collector.” 

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23)

Though Cussler doesn’t tour for his books, he flew to New York City this past weekend to accept an award at the Explorers Club in recognition of his searchs for long-lost ship-wrecks.  (One of his most famous finds was the Hunley, a Civil War sub that sank and was then lost off the coast of the Carolinas for more than 100 years.)  With 364,000 copies in print, Corsair is Cussler’s 37th book and the sixth Oregon files adventure (co-author is Jack Du Brul).

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In the eighth gripping Numa File novel, Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos deliver an electrifying mix of action and adventure. 

In 1846, a US whaling vessel, Princess, is struck by a mysterious and deadly tropical illness. In desperation, the captain shores his ship on a hostile island – where, miraculously, his crew are saved by a cure administered by the natives.

The presentday world is facing an eerily similar pandemic, but now of unthinkably global proportions. While governments try to conceal the danger, virologists toil to find a cure using the deadly toxins of a rare jellyfish – the Blue Medusa. Kurt Austin and his team soon find themselves in a desperate life or death struggle with the bad guys, who will stop at nothing to control both virus and antidote – and wield their power with terrifying consequences. The Numa Special Projects team is back – but this time the stakes are higher than ever… (July 2009)

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Since moving to Phoenix, Arizona in 1987, Roland Dahlquist has enjoyed a successful and award winning career as a freelance Illustrator & Art Director.

Roland established Dahlquist Illustration in 1987.  Since then he has freelanced for graphic design firms, advertising agencies, publishers, organizations and directly with corporations locally as well as in other regions of North America. 
 
His illustration, design and art direction for clients such as; Intel, Motorola, Newsweek, AT&T, USWest, GMC, Volkswagen, Audi, Citibank, and Fujitsu have garnered Roland many national and international awards.  Some of those awards include:  Mobius – Packaging,  Clio – Print, ADDY’s – Various print and corporate identity,  Communication Arts Design,  Communications Arts Illustration,  Print – Award of Excellence,  Art Direction Magazine – Award of Excellence,  AIGA – Award of Excellence and Photo District News Self Promotion Award – Art Direction/Design.

Having a degree in Fine Art, Roland now concentrates on creating his own images whether painting in oil, pastels, pencil or generating them on his computer.

Dahlquist continues to study painting at Scottsdale Artists’ School and has also studied in Europe.  Painting is one of the motivating factors in Dahlquist’s travels through The U.S. and Europe.

In 2003 Roland joined the faculty at The Art Institute of Phoenix to teach Drawing, Design, and Illustration.

In 2006 Roland was fortunate enough to be selected by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler to illustrate the pages of their novel, The Treasure of Khan. Dahlquist has continued his relationship with the Cusslers and illustrated the pages of  The Chase in 2007. Most recently Roland illustrated the pages and created the cover art for Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler’s latest novel, Arctic Drift.

See Roland Dahlquist’s work at www.vjbooks.com!

Jack DuBrul is the author of seven best-selling Phil Mercer thrillers.  DuBrul was educated at the West Minster School and holds a degree in international relations from George Washington University.

“I started writing my first novel at prep school and only abandoned the project after six hundred pages the encouragement of a few people who told me I had the gift but this wasn’t the story to pursue. I started my second, Vulcan’s Forge shortly after graduating from George Washington University while I was tending bar and waiting tables in Florida. It was published after I moved back to my native Vermont where I worked construction for my father.

This isn’t to say all I’ve ever done is work and write. Credibility is one of the keys to success as an author. Readers have to believe you know what you’re talking about or they won’t care about the book. There are two ways to gain (more…)

Shamus Award winner Paul Kemprecos spent more than 20 years as a reporter for Cape Cod newspapers before penning his successful Aristotle “Soc” Socarides adventure series.  He is the first generation American son of Greek immigrants whose writing has often drawn on memories of his family life.  In 1999 Kemprecos teamed with Clive Cussler for the first novel from the NUMA files, Serpent.  Since that time Paul has co-authored with Cussler several Kurt Austin adventures, including Polar Shift, Navigator and White Death.

See all of Paul Kempreco’s titles at www.vjbooks.com!