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I read and liked the early Dirk Pitt books when I was in my teens, probably because of the adventure aspect of it and how the stories would end up at a totally different place from where they started. I'd pick up a book every now and then after that and read it, but I wasn't chomping at the bit for the new releases anymore
What started to kill the series for me was when the author's photo on the back cover of the books and his bio began to parallel too closely what he was writing about as Pitt's interests. It was too Mary Sue for my taste.
I think the last book that I actually read was "Inca Gold" and that whole subterranean river sequence was so far-fetched that it even strained my credulity. I just said "no mas", and that was it for reading his books.
Once an author starts to use a co-author for an established series, that's usually the kiss-of-death as far as I'm concerned because you can tell that they are phoning it in after that point. That's when I stopped reading Tom Clancy's books.
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