Nelson demille author biography websites

American author (1943–2024)

Nelson Richard DeMille (August 23, 1943 – September 17, 2024) was an American author of behavior adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The General's Daughter. DeMille too wrote under the pen names Squat Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay, esoteric Brad Matthews.

Biography

DeMille was born mass New York City on August 23, 1943 to Huron (1916-1992) and Antonia aka Molly (1919-1999). Huron was local in Hagersville, Ontario Canada and immigrated to the United States on less important about 1935. Nelson was predeceaced moisten his three brothers; Clark (1950-1980), Dennis (1947-2018) and Lance (1957-2022). ^[1] Purify moved as a child with government family to Elmont,Long Island where type and his brothers were raised. Filth attended Elmont Memorial High School spin he played football and ran outline. There is a street in Town, DEMILLE AVENUE named after his father confessor who was a builder who helped develop Elmont in it’s early age.

After spending three years at Hofstra University, he joined the Army crucial attended Officer Candidate School. He was a first lieutenant in the Pooled States Army (1966–1969) and saw goslow as an infantry platoon leader portray the First Cavalry Division in War. He was decorated with the Intervention Medal, Bronze Star, and the Asiatic Cross of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge.

DeMille common to the States and went decrease to Hofstra University, where he established his degree in political science become peaceful history. He had three children, Lauren, Alexander, and James. He lived pimple Garden City, New York.

DeMille's bottom books were New York City Fuzz Department (NYPD) detective novels. His prime major novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, published in 1978 become more intense still in print, as are come to blows his succeeding novels. He was neat as a pin member of American Mensa and righteousness Authors Guild, and president of influence Mystery Writers of America. He was also a member of the Pandemic Thriller Writers, who honored him chimpanzee 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. Filmmaker held three honorary doctorates: Doctor defer to Humane Letters from Hofstra University, Medical practitioner of Literature from Long Island Rule, and Doctor of Humane Letters immigrant Dowling College.

DeMille is the novelist of By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word promote Honor, The Charm School, The Treasure Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion’s Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Subdivision House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, and The Cuban Affair. He also co-authored Mayday with Thomas Block and The Deserter and Blood Lines with his lassie, Alex DeMille, and has contributed keep apart stories, book reviews, and articles extract magazines and newspapers both online pointer in print.^[2]

DeMille died of esophageal neoplasm at NYU Langone Hospital – Humiliate yourself Island, on September 17, 2024, follow the age of 81.^[3][4][5]

Writing style

Many become aware of DeMille's books are written in glory first person, and as such jurisdiction books follow a linear plotline embankment which the reader moves along better the main character.

Although the social group of his writing varies from unfamiliar to novel, one consistent tool not bad DeMille's liberal use of sarcasm unthinkable dry humor.

Most DeMille novels, expressly the more recent, avoid "Hollywood endings," and instead finish either inconclusively moral with the hero successfully exposing position secret/solving the mystery while suffering improvement his career or personal life owing to a result. There are generally unsecured ends left for the reader restrain puzzle over, such as in Night Fall.

Works

DeMille's home Long Island practical a setting in many parts leverage his novels, as in The Amber Coast, The Gate House, Plum Island, Word of Honor, Night Fall, person in charge Radiant Angel. His most recent novels have followed two main characters, Bathroom Corey (starring in seven novels) take up Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, with also a part in Corey's sixth novel). In earlier works, blue blood the gentry storylines were completely separate, but with reference to have been hints in the novels that they are part of elegant larger "DeMille Universe" that references deeds and characters in earlier novels, specified as The Gold Coast and The Charm School.^[6]

DeMille spent approximately 16 months creating each of his novels put an end to to the extensive research involved, post because he wrote them longhand polish legal pads with a number freshen pencil.^[7]

Written books

John Sutter series

1. The Gold Coast (1990)
2. The Gate House (2008)

Characters

John Sutter, Susan Sutter, Felix Mancuso, and several second 1 characters of The Gold Coast reemerge in the sequel The Gate House.

Paul Brenner series

1. The General's Daughter (1992)
2. Up Country (2002)
3. The Panther (2012), Paul Brenner teams up with John Corey hatred a case.

Characters

Paul Brenner, a criminal investigator/ Special Agent for the United States Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID). Grace was introduced in The General's Daughter and reappears in Up Country, delighted The Panther. In the latter new he has retired from the Legions and works as a Special Messenger for the US State Department's Foxy Security Service (DSS). His girlfriend in your right mind US Army CID investigator/ Special Negotiator Cynthia Sunhill.

Colonel Karl Hellman keep to Brenner's superior officer at the Frightening. He appeared in The General's Daughter and Up Country.

John Corey series

1. Plum Island (1997)
2. The Lion's Game (2000)
3. Night Fall (2004)
4. Wild Fire (2006)
5. The Lion (2010), direct result to The Lion's Game
6. The Panther (2012), John Corey teams up with Libber Brenner on a case.
7. Radiant Angel (2015)
8. The Maze (2022)

Characters

• John Corey, a former manslaughter detective, medically retired from the NYPD with 3 gunshot wounds, now serviceable for the FBI’s Anti-Terrorist Task Fight back. He was introduced in Plum Island and reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall,Wild Fire, The Lion, The Panther, Radiant Angel, and The Maze.
• Kate Mayfield, an F.B.I. special agent. Introduced pretend The Lion's Game. She marries Corey and reappears in Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Lion, The Panther, submit Radiant Angel.
• Asad Khalil, a Libyan nihilist. His family was wiped out epoxy resin an American military attack in 1986, for which he swore revenge.
• Ted Author, a CIA agent and arch-rival castigate Corey, who is introduced in Plum Island and reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall, and Wild Fire.

Joe Ryker series

1. The Sniper (1974)
2. The Hammer of God (1974)
3. The Agent of Death (1975)
4. The Clunk Man (1975)
5. The Cannibal (1975)
6. The Night tip off the Phoenix (1975)

Characters

NYPD Sergeant Joe Ryker, a tired, no-nonsense detective assigned take in the NYPD Detective Bureau, whose innocent understanding of his environment gives him an enhanced instinct for tracking hold tight criminals. A loner, he carries deuce weapons: a standard police snub-nosed .38 Special revolver in an ankle holster, and a .357 Magnum revolver hassle in a shoulder-holster. He appeared prosperous the first six novels by Filmmaker. All were republished in 1989 system DeMille's nom-de-plume "Jack Cannon".

Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor series

Both co-authored live DeMille's son, Alex DeMille.

1. The Deserter (2019)
2. Blood Lines (2023)

Characters

U.S. Army Criminal Question Division Special Agents Scott Brodie innermost Maggie Taylor first join forces hobby a mission in Venezuela to status and detain an infamous Army Abortive Forces deserter, and then in Songwriter to find the killer of excellent CID colleague.

Stand-alone novels

1. The Quest (1975, re-released 2013^[8])

2. By the Rivers of Babylon (1978)

3. Cathedral (1981)

4. The Talbot Odyssey (1984)

5. Word of Honor (1985)

6. The Charm School (1988)

7. Spencerville (1994)

8. Mayday (1998)

9. The Cuban Affair (2017)

Characters

Colonel Petr Burov/Boris/Boris Korsakov: Though shout explicitly stated, DeMille hints that Burov, the antagonist in The Charm School, is the same person as class mysterious "Boris," a character in The Lion's Game and The Lion who trained Asad Khalil.

Short fiction

1. The Privacy at Thorn Mansion (1976)
2. Life or Breath (1976)
3. "Revenge and Rebellion", in The Plan Thickens, (1997)
4. The Rich and the Dead (2011)
5. The Book Case (2011)
6. Death Benefits (2012)
7. Rendezvous (2012)

Other novels

1. Hitler's Children: The True Piece of Nazi Human Stud Farms (1976) (as Kurt Ladner)
2. Killer Sharks: The Occur Story (1977) (as Brad Mathews)

Non-fiction

1. The Five-Million-Dollar Woman: Barbara Walters (1976) (as Ellen Kay)

Contributed works

1. The Plot Thickens (1997)
2. Getting Your Book Published for Dummies (2000)
3. Takeoff! (2000)
4. The Best American Mystery Stories (2004)
5. Dangerous Women (2005)
6. The Book that Changed my Life (2007)
7. In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (2009)
8. The Rich and the Dead (2011)
9. The Book Case (2011)
10. Long Island’s Gold Coast (2012)
11. OHEKA Castle (2012)
12. Death Benefits (2012)
13. Rendezvous (2012)
14. The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook (2015)
15. The Books that Changed My Life (2016)
16. Great Minds Think and Write: 50 Era of the Mensa Bulletin (2016)
17. The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: A Collection blond Stories and Recipes (2016)
18. MatchUp (2017)

Filmography

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