Gave up Clive in middle school
LOL. I just read him on the Airplane. Easy, quick, moderately entertaining and true to formula -- most of the time. This was one of his newer series (which I didn't know about when I bough it) that involves some super ship of super good guy mercenaries doing good deeds, etc. Had a hook image on the cover about some 1800s tramp steamer found deep in the African desert that turned out to be a distant side story that only featured in exactly 2 paragraphs of the book -- that pissed me off somewhat. The rest of the book was an even more over-the-top "action" adventure than the usual Dirk Pitt formula.
Clive may be a total publishing potato, but he does do some very interesting stuff with his money -- kinda lives the life he creates in print finding lost shipwrecks (without the gunplay and international intrigue). He did find the CSS Hunley and a wealth of "B" grade shipwrecks.
Charon
