Probably one of the greatest adventure novelists of our time. When his novel Raise the Titanic was bought for $840,000 by Viking Publishing in 1976, it put him on the map after 11 years of hard work. Before his success with RTT, he previously had written Pacific Vortex, which wasn't published until after his successes, The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg. Originally in advertising, first as an award-winning copy writer, and then as creative director for two of the nation's largest agencies. ...[Read Story]