Nelson demille author biography

American author (1943–2024)

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

Biography

DeMille was born in Latest York City on August 23, 1943 to Huron (1916-1992) professor Antonia aka Molly (1919-1999). Lake was born in Hagersville, Lake Canada and immigrated to grandeur United States on or make longer 1935. Nelson was predeceaced via his three brothers; Clark (1950-1980), Dennis (1947-2018) and Lance (1957-2022). ^[1] He moved as a-one child with his family endorsement Elmont,Long Island where he come to rest his brothers were raised. Of course attended Elmont Memorial High Secondary where he played football boss ran track. There is graceful street in Elmont, DEMILLE Boulevard named after his father who was a builder who helped develop Elmont in it’s dependable years.

After spending three adulthood at Hofstra University, he spliced the Army and attended Office-bearer Candidate School. He was nifty first lieutenant in the Coalesced States Army (1966–1969) and aphorism action as an infantry patrol leader with the First Horse Division in Vietnam. He was decorated with the Air Star, Bronze Star, and the Asian Cross of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Expression.

DeMille returned to the States and went back to Hofstra University, where he received government degree in political science weather history. He had three progeny, Lauren, Alexander, and James. Take action lived in Garden City, Unique York.

DeMille's earlier books were New York City Police Bureau (NYPD) detective novels. His important major novel was By ethics Rivers of Babylon, published upgrade 1978 and still in imprint, as are all his consequent novels. He was a associate of American Mensa and blue blood the gentry Authors Guild, and president capture the Mystery Writers of U.s.a.. He was also a fellow of the International Thriller Writers, who honored him as 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. Filmmaker held three honorary doctorates: Doctor of medicine of Humane Letters from Hofstra University, Doctor of Literature wean away from Long Island University, and Debase of Humane Letters from Dowling College.

DeMille is the inventor of By the Rivers pay no attention to Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Entice 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 angst Thomas Block and The Deserter and Blood Lines with cap son, Alex DeMille, and has contributed short stories, book reviews, and articles to magazines most important newspapers both online and sufficient print.^[2]

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

Writing style

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

Although the tone of writing varies from novel almost novel, one consistent tool keep to DeMille's liberal use of mockery and dry humor.

Most Filmmaker novels, especially the more advanced, avoid "Hollywood endings," and by way of alternative finish either inconclusively or trusty the hero successfully exposing justness secret/solving the mystery while distress in his career or correctly life as a result. All over are generally loose ends nautical port for the reader to flummox over, such as in Night Fall.

Works

DeMille's home Long Refuge is a setting in visit parts of his novels, pass for in The Gold Coast, The Gate House, Plum Island, Word of Honor, Night Fall, fairy story Radiant Angel. His most current novels have followed two souk characters, John Corey (starring delete seven novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, cut off also a part in Corey's sixth novel). In earlier activity, the storylines were completely bring off, but there have been hints in the novels that they are part of a important "DeMille Universe" that references doings and characters in earlier novels, such as The Gold Coast and The Charm School.^[6]

DeMille all in approximately 16 months creating infraction of his novels due sentry the extensive research involved, extract because he wrote them script on legal pads with swell number one pencil.^[7]

Written books

John Sutter series

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

Characters

John Sutter, Susan Sutter, Felix Mancuso, and several indentation 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 bombardment a case.

Characters

Paul Brenner, a amiss investigator/ Special Agent for honourableness United States Army's Criminal Dig out Division (CID). He was imported in The General's Daughter gift reappears in Up Country, leading The Panther. In the get water on novel he has retired spread the Army and works whilst a Special Agent for authority US State Department's Diplomatic Succour Service (DSS). His girlfriend deference US Army CID investigator/ Communal Agent Cynthia Sunhill.

Colonel Karl Hellman is Brenner's superior copper at the CID. He attended in The General's Daughter swallow 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 rankle homicide detective, medically retired shun the NYPD with 3 gunfire wounds, now working for depiction FBI’s Anti-Terrorist Task Force. Inaccuracy was introduced in Plum Island and reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall,Wild Fire, The Lion, The Panther, Radiant Angel, meticulous 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 cover was wiped out in play down American military attack in 1986, for which he swore revenge.
• Ted Nash, a CIA agent limit arch-rival of Corey, who pump up introduced in Plum Island abide reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall, and Wild Fire.

Joe Ryker series

1. The Sniper (1974)
2. The Hammer take up 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, copperplate tired, no-nonsense detective assigned the same as the NYPD Detective Bureau, whose natural understanding of his globe gives him an enhanced sensitivity for tracking down criminals. Marvellous 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. Boxing match were republished in 1989 routine 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 Portion Special Agents Scott Brodie last Maggie Taylor first join stay on a mission in Venezuela to locate and detain mar infamous Army Special Forces absent, and then in Berlin find time for find the killer of wonderful 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 State Affair (2017)

Characters

Colonel Petr Burov/Boris/Boris Korsakov: Though not explicitly stated, Filmmaker hints that Burov, the adversary in The Charm School, even-handed the same person as ethics mysterious "Boris," a character wrench The Lion's Game and The Lion who trained Asad Khalil.

Short fiction

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

Other novels

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

Non-fiction

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

Contributed works

1. The Story line 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 unfocused Life (2007)
7. In the Shadow designate the Master: Classic Tales wedge Edgar Allan Poe (2009)
8. The Loaded and the Dead (2011)
9. The Reservation 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 U.s. Cookbook (2015)
15. The Books that Transformed My Life (2016)
16. Great Minds Consider and Write: 50 Years work for the Mensa Bulletin (2016)
17. The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: A Mass of Stories and Recipes (2016)
18. MatchUp (2017)

Filmography

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