Charon's Landing

Clive Cussler fans, take notice! If you don't yet know the name Jack Du Brul, you certainly should. The budding young action/adventure star's debut novel, Vulcan's Forge -- which features the charismatic, hard-drinking, Dirk Pitt-like geologist Philip Mercer -- was published last year to tremendous praise. Now, Du Brul returns with Charon's Landing , his second inventive, high-flying Mercer adventure. Check out our interview below

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Clive Cussler on Charon's Landing

Dear Jack,

Have read Charon s Landing. You re a helluva writer. You certainly turn a phrase better than I do. Your attention to detail and your research boggles the mind. The technology you come up with is on a par if not superior to Clancy. I consider it a privilege to have your work compared favorably with mine in your reviews. You re coming along at a good time and I m honored to give a quote for Charon s Landing:

Jack Du Brul has to be the finest adventure writer on the scene today. Romance, violence, technology are superbly blended by a master story-teller in Charon s Landing. Du Brul creates a fast-moving odyssey that is second to none.

You ve got the gift, Jack. You launch the story and slowly begin to tighten the tension. I predict your break-through book, your big bestseller, is just around the corner.

--Clive Cussler

Jack Du Brul is the author of numerous thrillers, and he has also collaborated with Clive Cussler on the New York Times bestseller Dark Watch and the upcoming Skeleton Coast. Du Brul was educated at the Westminster School and holds a degree in international relations from George Washington University. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Debbie.