Clive Cussler was the author and co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt® adventures, such as Celtic Empire; the NUMA® Files adventures, most recently Fast Ice; the Oregon Files, such as Marauder; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase; and the recent Fargo Adventures, which lastly included Wrath of Poseidon. Cussler died in 2020.

Russell Blake is the author of twenty-nine acclaimed thrillers, including the Assassin, JET, and BLACK series. He has co-written two Fargo novels with Clive Cussler: The Eye of Heaven and The Solomon Curse. He lives on the Pacific coast of Mexico.