Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. Who else, he asked no one in particular, but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.