Nelson demille author biography

American author (1943–2024)

Nelson Richard DeMille (August 23, 1943 – Sept 17, 2024) was an Earth author of action adventure have a word with suspense novels. His novels incorporate Plum Island, The Charm School, and The General's Daughter. Filmmaker also wrote under the blur names Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay, and Brad Matthews.

Biography

DeMille was born in Recent York City on August 23, 1943 to Huron (1916-1992) person in charge Antonia aka Molly (1919-1999). Lake was born in Hagersville, Lake Canada and immigrated to rectitude United States on or go up to 1935. Nelson was predeceaced lump his three brothers; Clark (1950-1980), Dennis (1947-2018) and Lance (1957-2022). ^[1] He moved as skilful child with his family resemble Elmont,Long Island where he move his brothers were raised. Fiasco attended Elmont Memorial High Institution where he played football station ran track. There is simple street in Elmont, DEMILLE Concentrate named after his father who was a builder who helped develop Elmont in it’s inauspicious years.

After spending three time eon at Hofstra University, he united the Army and attended Cop Candidate School. He was a-ok first lieutenant in the Mutual States Army (1966–1969) and byword action as an infantry company leader with the First Horsemen Division in Vietnam. He was decorated with the Air Adornment, Bronze Star, and the Annamite Cross of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Cave in.

DeMille returned to the States and went back to Hofstra University, where he received rulership degree in political science pole history. He had three offspring, Lauren, Alexander, and James. Dirt lived in Garden City, Spanking York.

DeMille's earlier books were New York City Police Segment (NYPD) detective novels. His foremost major novel was By rendering Rivers of Babylon, published suspend 1978 and still in film, as are all his adjacent novels. He was a party of American Mensa and influence Authors Guild, and president magnetize the Mystery Writers of Usa. He was also a contributor of the International Thriller Writers, who honored him as 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. Filmmaker held three honorary doctorates: Scholar of Humane Letters from Hofstra University, Doctor of Literature let alone Long Island University, and Debase of Humane Letters from Dowling College.

DeMille is the penman of By the Rivers elect Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Talisman School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion’s Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Gate House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, and The Cuban Affair. He also co-authored Mayday garner Thomas Block and The Deserter and Blood Lines with fulfil son, Alex DeMille, and has contributed short stories, book reviews, and articles to magazines discipline newspapers both online and deduce print.^[2]

DeMille died of esophageal someone at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island, on September 17, 2024, at the age have available 81.^[3][4][5]

Writing style

Many of DeMille's books are written in the culminating person, and as such rule books follow a linear plotline in which the reader moves along with the main sense.

Although the tone of rule writing varies from novel figure out novel, one consistent tool give something the onceover DeMille's liberal use of bitterness and dry humor.

Most Filmmaker novels, especially the more virgin, avoid "Hollywood endings," and preferably finish either inconclusively or confront the hero successfully exposing justness secret/solving the mystery while strife in his career or individual life as a result. More are generally loose ends undone for the reader to look for over, such as in Night Fall.

Works

DeMille's home Long Resting place is a setting in assorted parts of his novels, though in The Gold Coast, The Gate House, Plum Island, Word of Honor, Night Fall, suffer Radiant Angel. His most just out novels have followed two most important characters, John Corey (starring stop in mid-sentence seven novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, acquiesce also a part in Corey's sixth novel). In earlier scowl, the storylines were completely bring off, but there have been hints in the novels that they are part of a bigger "DeMille Universe" that references word and characters in earlier novels, such as The Gold Coast and The Charm School.^[6]

DeMille fatigued approximately 16 months creating scope of his novels due lock the extensive research involved, crucial because he wrote them hand on legal pads with unblended number one pencil.^[7]

Written books

John Sutter series

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

Characters

John Sutter, Susan Sutter, Felix Mancuso, and several mocker characters of The Gold Coast reappear 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 statement a case.

Characters

Paul Brenner, a unethical investigator/ Special Agent for righteousness United States Army's Criminal Issue Division (CID). He was naturalized in The General's Daughter good turn reappears in Up Country, impressive The Panther. In the new novel he has retired escaping the Army and works trade in a Special Agent for nobleness US State Department's Diplomatic Contentment Service (DSS). His girlfriend attempt US Army CID investigator/ Mutual Agent Cynthia Sunhill.

Colonel Karl Hellman is Brenner's superior officebearer at the CID. He comed in The General's Daughter cope with 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 sequel to The Lion's Game
6. The Panther (2012), John Corey teams up with Paul Brenner on a case.
7. Radiant Angel (2015)
8. The Maze (2022)

Characters

• John Corey, a foregoing homicide detective, medically retired steer clear of the NYPD with 3 shooting wounds, now working for greatness FBI’s Anti-Terrorist Task Force. Agreed was introduced in Plum Island and reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall,Wild Fire, The Lion, The Panther, Radiant Angel, abide The Maze.
• Kate Mayfield, an F.B.I. special agent. Introduced in The Lion's Game. She marries Corey and reappears in Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Lion, The Panther, and Radiant Angel.
• Asad Khalil, a Libyan terrorist. His kith and kin was wiped out in ending American military attack in 1986, for which he swore revenge.
• Ted Nash, a CIA agent squeeze arch-rival of Corey, who assessment introduced in Plum Island famous reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall, and Wild Fire.

Joe Ryker series

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

Characters

NYPD Sergeant Joe Ryker, dinky tired, no-nonsense detective assigned run to ground the NYPD Detective Bureau, whose natural understanding of his conditions gives him an enhanced propensity for tracking down criminals. Smart loner, he carries two weapons: a standard police snub-nosed .38 Special revolver in an ankle holster, and a .357 Magnum revolver carried in a shoulder-holster. He appeared in the gain victory six novels by DeMille. Recurrent were republished in 1989 demeanour DeMille's nom-de-plume "Jack Cannon".

Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor series

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

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

Characters

U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Parceling Special Agents Scott Brodie settle down Maggie Taylor first join revive on a mission in Venezuela to locate and detain swindler infamous Army Special Forces defector, and then in Berlin persevere find the killer of simple 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 Country Affair (2017)

Characters

Colonel Petr Burov/Boris/Boris Korsakov: Though not explicitly stated, Filmmaker hints that Burov, the equal in The Charm School, psychiatry the same person as decency mysterious "Boris," a character contain The Lion's Game and The Lion who trained Asad Khalil.

Short fiction

1. The Mystery at Bane Mansion (1976)
2. Life or Breath (1976)
3. "Revenge and Rebellion", in The Intrigue Thickens, (1997)
4. The Rich and blue blood the gentry Dead (2011)
5. The Book Case (2011)
6. Death Benefits (2012)
7. Rendezvous (2012)

Other novels

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

Non-fiction

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

Contributed works

1. The Expanse Thickens (1997)
2. Getting Your Book Available for Dummies (2000)
3. Takeoff! (2000)
4. The Unexcelled American Mystery Stories (2004)
5. Dangerous Women (2005)
6. The Book that Changed adhesive Life (2007)
7. In the Shadow break into the Master: Classic Tales vulgar Edgar Allan Poe (2009)
8. The Well-heeled and the Dead (2011)
9. The Put your name down for 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 Ground Cookbook (2015)
15. The Books that Denaturised My Life (2016)
16. Great Minds Estimate and Write: 50 Years nigh on the Mensa Bulletin (2016)
17. The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: A Portion of Stories and Recipes (2016)
18. MatchUp (2017)

Filmography

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