Clive Cussler

I love a good satire piece, don’t you? And this one from Lawrence Block had me absolutely howling. It begins: Publishing circles were reeling today after this morning’s surprise announcement of the merger of pop fiction titans James Patterson and Clive Cussler, who between them are likely to account for twenty bestsellers in calendar year [...]

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