Juan Cabrillo is the main character in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files, a series of books based on the Oregon, a state-of-the-art vessel disguised as a rusting heap of junk. Cabrillo is the Chairman of the Corporation, and is in charge of the ship and its crew. He is a tall man in his forties, handsome, with pixie-blue eyes, trimmed blond hair and a moustache. During a battle in Flood Tide, he lost a leg and has had it replaced with a high-tech prosthetic with little sign of injury, though he has confided in the ship's doctor that it causes him phantom pain. The Corporation's Magic Shop has outfitted the prosthesis with several "tools of the trade," such as a knife, that help get him out of trouble from time to time. He was once married, but his wife died while driving drunk, which makes him less of a lady's man than Cussler's other heroes, Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin. He shares his name with a Spanish conquistador from the time of Fernando Cortez, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. He favours using the FN Five-seven.
The books in which Juan Cabrillo has appeared so far are:
The main characters that have appeared alongside Cabrillo include:
Langston Overholt IV also appears in the books as the CIA officer that hires the Corporation.