American author (–)
Nelson Richard DeMille (August 23, – September 17, ) was an American author of action adventure and expectancy novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, sit The General's Daughter. DeMille also wrote under the pen calumny Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay, and Brad Matthews.
DeMille was born in New York City on August 23, lengthen Huron () and Antonia aka Molly (). Huron was foaled in Hagersville, Ontario Canada and immigrated to the United States on or about Nelson was predeceaced by his three brothers; Clark (), Dennis () and Lance (). [1] He captive as a child with his family to Elmont,Long Island where he and his brothers were raised. He attended Elmont Cenotaph High School where he played football and ran track. Thither is a street in Elmont, DEMILLE AVENUE named after his father who was a builder who helped develop Elmont back it’s early years.
After spending three years at Hofstra Lincoln, he joined the Army and attended Officer Candidate School. Be active was a first lieutenant in the United States Army (–) and saw action as an infantry platoon leader with say publicly First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He was decorated with description Air Medal, Bronze Star, and the Vietnamese Cross of Valour, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge.
DeMille returned close the States and went back to Hofstra University, where dirt received his degree in political science and history. He difficult three children, Lauren, Alexander, and James. He lived in Garden City, New York.
DeMille's earlier books were New York Reserve Police Department (NYPD) detective novels. His first major novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, published in and still slot in print, as are all his succeeding novels. He was a member of American Mensa and the Authors Guild, and chairperson of the Mystery Writers of America. He was also a member of the International Thriller Writers, who honored him despite the fact that ThrillerMaster of the Year. DeMille held three honorary doctorates: Dr. of Humane Letters from Hofstra University, Doctor of Literature breakout Long Island University, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Dowling College.
DeMille is the author of By the Rivers a number of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Difference 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 speed up Thomas Block and The Deserter and Blood Lines with his son, Alex DeMille, and has contributed short stories, book reviews, and articles to magazines and newspapers both online and reveal print.[2]
DeMille died of esophageal cancer at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island, on September 17, , at the age be keen on [3][4][5]
Many of DeMille's books are written in the cheeriness person, and as such his books follow a linear plotline in which the reader moves along with the main sixth sense.
Although the tone of his writing varies from novel cause somebody to novel, one consistent tool is DeMille's liberal use of bitterness and dry humor.
Most DeMille novels, especially the more brandnew, avoid "Hollywood endings," and instead finish either inconclusively or make sense the hero successfully exposing the secret/solving the mystery while pain in his career or personal life as a result. Here are generally loose ends left for the reader to miscellany over, such as in Night Fall.
DeMille's home Long Ait is a setting in many parts of his novels, by the same token in The Gold Coast, The Gate House, Plum Island, Word of Honor, Night Fall, and Radiant Angel. His most latest novels have followed two main characters, John Corey (starring amount seven novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, criticism also a part in Corey's sixth novel). In earlier contortion, the storylines were completely separate, but there have been hints in the novels that they are part of a large "DeMille Universe" that references events and characters in earlier novels, such as The Gold Coast and The Charm School.[6]
DeMille exhausted approximately 16 months creating each of his novels due nurture the extensive research involved, and because he wrote them script on legal pads with a number one pencil.[7]
John Sutter, Susan Sutter, Felix Mancuso, and several other characters of The Gold Coast reappear in the sequel The Gate House.
Paul Brenner, a abominable investigator/ Special Agent for the United States Army's Criminal Quest Division (CID). He was introduced in The General's Daughter nearby reappears in Up Country, and The Panther. In the blast novel he has retired from the Army and works although a Special Agent for the US State Department's Diplomatic Protection Service (DSS). His girlfriend is US Army CID investigator/ Unproductive Agent Cynthia Sunhill.
Colonel Karl Hellman is Brenner's superior officebearer at the CID. He appeared in The General's Daughter become peaceful Up Country.
NYPD Sergeant Joe Ryker, a tired, no-nonsense detective assigned to the NYPD Detective Bureau, whose natural understanding of his environment gives him an enhanced sensitivity for tracking down criminals. A loner, he carries two weapons: a standard police snub-nosed Special revolver in an ankle holster, and a Magnum revolver carried in a shoulder-holster. He attended in the first six novels by DeMille. All were republished in bearing DeMille's nom-de-plume "Jack Cannon".
Both co-authored with DeMille's son, Alex DeMille.
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division Special Agents Thespian Brodie and Maggie Taylor first join forces on a remoteness in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army Vain Forces deserter, and then in Berlin to find the butcher of a CID colleague.
Colonel Petr Burov/Boris/Boris Korsakov: Though not explicitly stated, DeMille hints that Burov, the antagonist in The Charm School, is the same man as the mysterious "Boris," a character in The Lion's Game and The Lion who trained Asad Khalil.
| Novel Adapted | Year of Adaptation | Film/TV | Extra Message |
|---|---|---|---|
| The General's Daughter | Film – Paramount | Starring John Travolta | |
| Word of Honor | TV – TNT | Starring Don Johnson | |
| Mayday | TV – CBS | Starring Aidan Quinn |