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Author Clive Cussler dies at age 88

Best-selling novelist and noted car collector Clive Cussler died on February 24 at age 88.

Cussler was perhaps best known for his larger-than-life character Dirk Pitt, a scuba-diving scientist for the fictional National Underwater and Marine Agency who was forever discovering ancient artifacts, solving historic mysteries, and generally having to rely on his brains, fists, and the occasional deus ex machina to escape the nefarious plots of various international

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