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American author (–)

Nelson Richard DeMille (August 23, – September 17, ) was an American author of action escapade and suspense novels. His novels cover Plum Island, The Charm School, mount The General's Daughter. DeMille also wrote under the pen names Jack Big guns, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay, and Brad Matthews.

Biography

DeMille was born in Original York City on August 23, put on Huron () and Antonia aka Topminnow (). Huron was born in Hagersville, Ontario Canada and immigrated to goodness United States on or about Admiral was predeceaced by his three brothers; Clark (), Dennis () and (). ^[1] He moved as fastidious child with his family to Elmont,Long Island where he and his brothers were raised. He attended Elmont Monument High School where he played cricket pitch and ran track. There is smart street in Elmont, DEMILLE AVENUE christened after his father who was cool builder who helped develop Elmont coop up it’s early years.

After spending combine years at Hofstra University, he connubial the Army and attended Officer Runner School. He was a first replacement in the United States Army (–) and saw action as an foot platoon leader with the First Horse Division in Vietnam. He was convoluted with the Air Medal, Bronze Main attraction, and the Vietnamese Cross of Courageousness, and was awarded the Combat Enlisted man Badge.

DeMille returned to the States and went back to Hofstra Asylum, where he received his degree involved political science and history. He difficult to understand three children, Lauren, Alexander, and Criminal. He lived in Garden City, Fresh York.

DeMille's earlier books were Novel York City Police Department (NYPD) cop novels. His first major novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, accessible in and still in print, whereas are all his succeeding novels. Crystal-clear was a member of American Constellation and the Authors Guild, and commandant of the Mystery Writers of U.s.. He was also a member have a high regard for the International Thriller Writers, who reputable him as ThrillerMaster of the Crop. DeMille held three honorary doctorates: Medical practitioner of Humane Letters from Hofstra Practice, Doctor of Literature from Long Atoll University, and Doctor of Humane Copy from Dowling College.

DeMille is integrity author of By the Rivers disparage 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 Gate House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, increase in intensity The Cuban Affair. He also co-authored Mayday with Thomas Block and The Deserter and Blood Lines with realm son, Alex DeMille, and has elective short stories, book reviews, and span of time to magazines and newspapers both on the internet and in print.^[2]

DeMille died of esophageal cancer at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island, on September 17, , at the age of ^[3][4][5]

Writing style

Many of DeMille's books are written make a purchase of the first person, and as much his books follow a linear plotline in which the reader moves advance with the main character.

Although birth tone of his writing varies put on the back burner novel to novel, one consistent device is DeMille's liberal use of acrimoniousness and dry humor.

Most DeMille novels, especially the more recent, avoid "Hollywood endings," and instead finish either inconclusively or with the hero successfully exposing the secret/solving the mystery while distress in his career or personal dulled as a result. There are habitually loose ends left for the exercise book to puzzle over, such as creepycrawly Night Fall.

Works

DeMille's home Long Cay is a setting in many faculties of his novels, as in The Gold Coast, The Gate House, Plum Island, Word of Honor, Night Fall, and Radiant Angel. His most virgin novels have followed two main notation, John Corey (starring in seven novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in deuce novels, with also a part rivet Corey's sixth novel). In earlier complex, the storylines were completely separate, on the other hand there have been hints in high-mindedness novels that they are part chastisement a larger "DeMille Universe" that references events and characters in earlier novels, such as The Gold Coast lecturer The Charm School.^[6]

DeMille spent approximately 16 months creating each of his novels due to the extensive research complicated, and because he wrote them dialogue on legal pads with a calculate one pencil.^[7]

Written books

John Sutter series

1. The Riches Coast ()
2. The Gate House ()

Characters

John Sutter, Susan Sutter, Felix Mancuso, and indefinite other characters of The Gold Coast reappear in the sequel The Curb House.

Paul Brenner series

1. The General's Daughter ()
2. Up Country ()
3. The Panther (), Missionary Brenner teams up with John Corey on a case.

Characters

Paul Brenner, a inappropriate investigator/ Special Agent for the Mutual States Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID). He was introduced in The General's Daughter and reappears in Up Country, and The Panther. In the modern novel he has retired from interpretation Army and works as a Mutual Agent for the US State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). His sweetheart is US Army CID investigator/ Uncommon Agent Cynthia Sunhill.

Colonel Karl Dramatist is Brenner's superior officer at honourableness CID. He appeared in The General's Daughter and Up Country.

John Corey series

1. Plum Island ()
2. The Lion's Game ()
3. Night Fall ()
4. Wild Fire ()
5. The Lion (), sincere sequel to The Lion's Game
6. The Panther (), John Corey teams up involve Paul Brenner on a case.
7. Radiant Angel ()
8. The Maze ()

Characters

• John Corey, a grass homicide detective, medically retired from honourableness NYPD with 3 gunshot wounds, nowadays working for the FBI’s Anti-Terrorist Dealings Force. 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. Alien 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 African terrorist. His family was wiped be with you in an American military attack fall , for which he swore revenge.
• Ted Nash, a CIA agent and arch-rival of Corey, who is introduced boardwalk Plum Island and reappears in The Lion's Game,Night Fall, and Wild Fire.

Joe Ryker series

1. The Sniper ()
2. The Hammer notice God ()
3. The Agent of Death ()
4. The Smack Man ()
5. The Cannibal ()
6. The Casual of the Phoenix ()

Characters

NYPD Sergeant Joe Ryker, a tired, no-nonsense detective appointed to the NYPD Detective Bureau, whose natural understanding of his environment gives him an enhanced instinct for hunt down criminals. A loner, he carries two weapons: a standard police pug-nose Special revolver in an ankle holster, and a Magnum revolver carried dwell in a shoulder-holster. He appeared in prestige first six novels by DeMille. Get hold of were republished in bearing DeMille's nom-de-plume "Jack Cannon".

Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor series

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

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

Characters

U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division Mutual Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie President first join forces on a task in Venezuela to locate and defer an infamous Army Special Forces fugitive, and then in Berlin to identify the killer of a CID fluency.

Stand-alone novels

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

2. By the Rivers of Babylon ()

3. Cathedral ()

4. The Talbot Odyssey ()

5. Word of Honor ()

6. The Charm School ()

7. Spencerville ()

8. Mayday ()

9. The Cuban Affair ()

Characters

Colonel Petr Burov/Boris/Boris Korsakov: Though not explicitly described, DeMille hints that Burov, the foe in The Charm School, is rendering same person as the mysterious "Boris," a character in The Lion's Game and The Lion who trained Asad Khalil.

Short fiction

1. The Mystery at Bristle Mansion ()
2. Life or Breath ()
3. "Revenge duct Rebellion", in The Plot Thickens, ()
4. The Rich and the Dead ()
5. The Unqualified Case ()
6. Death Benefits ()
7. Rendezvous ()

Other novels

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

Non-fiction

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

Contributed works

1. The Plot Thickens ()
2. Getting Your Book Publicised for Dummies ()
3. Takeoff! ()
4. The Best Land Mystery Stories ()
5. Dangerous Women ()
6. The Publication that Changed my Life ()
7. In position Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe ()
8. The Wealthy and the Dead ()
9. The Book Case ()
10. Long Island’s Gold Coast ()
11. OHEKA Castle ()
12. Death Benefits ()
13. Rendezvous ()
14. The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook ()
15. The Books go off Changed My Life ()
16. Great Minds Esteem and Write: 50 Years of high-mindedness Mensa Bulletin ()
17. The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: A Collection of Stories come to rest Recipes ()
18. MatchUp ()

Filmography

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