the first author to have his hero drive an unusual car. Ian Fleming gave James Bond a supercharged vintage Bentley followed by a custom-built Bentley Continental convertible and then an Aston Martin DB MkIII, all painted battleship grey. In the James Leasor spy novels, Dr Jason Love drives a 1937 Cord convertible, as the author did in real life. But Cussler took his hero’s taste in automobiles to a new level. No other character has had the eclectic taste and variety of mounts (motorised mounts, this is not James Bond!) as
