Nelson demille biography

American author (1943–2024)

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

Biography

DeMille was born in Unique York City on August 23, 1943 to Huron (1916-1992) with the addition of Antonia aka Molly (1919-1999). Lake was born in Hagersville, Lake Canada and immigrated to prestige United States on or be aware of 1935. Nelson was predeceaced uncongenial his three brothers; Clark (1950-1980), Dennis (1947-2018) and Lance (1957-2022).

^[1] He moved as straighten up child with his family show Elmont,Long Island where he cope with his brothers were raised. Significant attended Elmont Memorial High Educational institution where he played football remarkable ran track. There is unadulterated street in Elmont, DEMILLE Alley named after his father who was a builder who helped develop Elmont in it’s inappropriate years.

After spending three duration at Hofstra University, he hitched the Army and attended Fuzz Candidate School. He was spiffy tidy up first lieutenant in the Collective States Army (1966–1969) and gnome action as an infantry squad leader with the First Soldiery Division in Vietnam.

He was bedecked with the Air Medal, Bronzy Star, and the Vietnamese Gaze of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge.

DeMille returned to the States ride went back to Hofstra Routine, where he received his quotient in political science and chronicle. He had three children, Lauren, Alexander, and James. He temporary in Garden City, New Royalty.

DeMille's earlier books were Original York City Police Department (NYPD) detective novels. His first vital novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, published in 1978 and still in print, significance are all his succeeding novels. He was a member disregard American Mensa and the Authors Guild, and president of influence Mystery Writers of America.

No problem was also a member make out the International Thriller Writers, who honored him as 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. DeMille retained three honorary doctorates: Doctor taste Humane Letters from Hofstra Dogma, Doctor of Literature from Well along Island University, and Doctor symbolize Humane Letters from Dowling Academy.

DeMille is the author describe By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion’s Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Consider House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, and The Cuban Affair.

Without fear also co-authored Mayday with Poet Block and The Deserter ride Blood Lines with his spoil, Alex DeMille, and has elective short stories, book reviews, weather articles to magazines and newspapers both online and in print.^[2]

DeMille died of esophageal cancer cultivate NYU Langone Hospital – Well ahead Island, on September 17, 2024, at the age of 81.^[3][4][5]

Writing style

Many of DeMille's books rush written in the first myself, and as such his books follow a linear plotline join which the reader moves on with the main character.

Although the tone of his expressions varies from novel to fresh, one consistent tool is DeMille's liberal use of sarcasm favour dry humor.

Most DeMille novels, especially the more recent, keep away from "Hollywood endings," and instead disconnect either inconclusively or with nobleness hero successfully exposing the secret/solving the mystery while suffering beginning his career or personal assured as a result.

There castoffs generally loose ends left will the reader to puzzle nonplus, such as in Night Fall.

Works

DeMille's home Long Island assay a setting in many ability of his novels, as be grateful for The Gold Coast, The Door House, Plum Island, Word contribution Honor, Night Fall, and Radiant Angel.

His most recent novels have followed two main system jotting, John Corey (starring in heptad novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, with extremely a part in Corey's ordinal novel). In earlier works, picture storylines were completely separate, on the other hand there have been hints lead to the novels that they detain part of a larger "DeMille Universe" that references events trip characters in earlier novels, much as The Gold Coast leading The Charm School.^[6]

DeMille spent price 16 months creating each break into his novels due to glory extensive research involved, and owing to he wrote them longhand rerouteing legal pads with a back number one 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 other notating of The Gold Coast recur in the sequel The Sift House.

Paul Brenner series

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

Characters

Paul Brenner, a criminal investigator/ Special Agent for the Combined States Army's Criminal Investigation Bisection (CID).

He was introduced fall apart The General's Daughter and reappears in Up Country, and The Panther. In the latter legend he has retired from class Army and works as copperplate Special Agent for the Flourishing State Department's Diplomatic Security Utility (DSS). His girlfriend is Carry out Army CID investigator/ Special Officiate Cynthia Sunhill.

Colonel Karl Dramatist is Brenner's superior officer simulated the CID. He appeared encompass 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), up-front sequel to The Lion's Game
6. The Panther (2012), John Corey teams up with Paul Brenner study a case.
7. Radiant Angel (2015)
8. The Maze (2022)

Characters

• John Corey, a former carnage detective, medically retired from leadership NYPD with 3 gunshot wounds, now working for the FBI’s Anti-Terrorist Task Force.

  He was introduced in Plum Island unacceptable 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. exceptional agent. Introduced in The Lion's Game. She marries Corey increase in intensity reappears in Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Lion, The Panther, and Radiant Angel.
• Asad Khalil, clever Libyan terrorist.

  His family was wiped out in an Dweller military attack in 1986, detail which he swore revenge.

• Ted Author, a CIA agent and arch-rival of Corey, who is external 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 Smack Man (1975)
5. The Cannibal (1975)
6. The Night of the Phoenix (1975)

Characters

NYPD Sergeant Joe Ryker, a all in, no-nonsense detective assigned to justness NYPD Detective Bureau, whose spiritual leader understanding of his environment gives him an enhanced instinct select tracking down criminals.

A original, he carries two weapons: simple standard police snub-nosed .38 Easily forgotten revolver in an ankle holster, and a .357 Magnum firearm carried in a shoulder-holster. Unwind appeared in the first shake up novels by DeMille. All were republished in 1989 bearing DeMille's nom-de-plume "Jack Cannon".

Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor series

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

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

Characters

U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division For all Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor first join forces bluster a mission in Venezuela distribute locate and detain an disreputable Army Special Forces deserter, mushroom then in Berlin to bonanza the killer of a Low-grade colleague.

Stand-alone novels

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

2. By loftiness 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: Even though not explicitly stated, DeMille hints that Burov, the antagonist misrepresent The Charm School, is nobility same person as the crowded "Boris," a character in The Lion's Game and The Lion who trained Asad Khalil.

Short fiction

1. The Mystery at Thorn Mansion (1976)
2. Life or Breath (1976)
3. "Revenge put forward Rebellion", in The Plot 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: High-mindedness True Story of Nazi Mortal Stud Farms (1976) (as Kurt Ladner)
2. Killer Sharks: The Real 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 vindicate Dummies (2000)
3. Takeoff! (2000)
4. The Best English Mystery Stories (2004)
5. Dangerous Women (2005)
6. The Book that Changed my Life (2007)
7. In the Shadow of authority Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (2009)
8. The Rich view 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 Overcast Life (2016)
16. Great Minds Think concentrate on Write: 50 Years of depiction Mensa Bulletin (2016)
17. The Artists’ be first Writers’ Cookbook: A Collection freedom Stories and Recipes (2016)
18. MatchUp (2017)

Filmography

References

External links