Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of more than 50 previous books in five best-selling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Sam and Remi Fargo. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, plus The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II. They describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler has discovered more than 60 ships, including the long lost Confederate ship Hunley. He lives in Arizona.
Grant Blackwood is the New York Times bestselling author of the Briggs Tanner series. He is also the coauthor of the Fargo Adventure series with Clive Cussler, the #1 New York Times bestseller Dead or Alive with Tom Clancy, and the thriller The Kill Switch with James Rollins. A US Navy veteran, Grant spent three years aboard a guided missile frigate as an operations specialist and a pilot rescue swimmer. He lives in Arizona.
Richard Poe is an award-winning journalist, a New York Times–bestselling author, and the editor of FrontPagemag.com, a popular conservative website. In addition, his columns have appeared on NewsMax.com, an online newspaper rated as the sixth most-visited website on the Internet by the World Charts Foundation. Mr. Poe lives in New York City.