I need to get into the Dirk Pitt series. I've read both of Cussler's Sea Hunters books about his real-life shipwreck-finding escapades, and I found his writing style massively entertaining. (His description of a potato assault on a French naval frigate is something else.
) I'm sure his fiction is every bit as fun.
It's great, though like all great authors he settles into a routine all too quickly. Evil corporation is causing huge ecological or economic disaster, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino (his sidekick) must sneak into several of the bad guy's fortresses, in the end the corporation is disbanded and the world saved.
The thing is, everything's borderline over the top, in a good way. A lot of the time I'll be reading and think, 'that was too easy and obvious a way to get out of that' but the thing is, I don't care, it's great fun.