Nelson DeMille Novels
Nelson DeMille's early novels were NYPD Police Detective stories. Later novels travel to Vietnam, introduce a General's daughter, and encounter terrorism.
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Amazon.com Review John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective, assigned to the
Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the pre-millennium 90's, makes
a return appearance in a thoughtful novel offering an alternative to
the government's "official" position on what really happened to TWA
Flight 800, which crashed off the Long Island coast in the summer of
1996. Accompanying his wife Kate to a memorial marking the five-year
anniversary of the crash, Corey's curiosity is aroused by what
appears to be a concerted effort by Kate's fellow federal agents to
keep him--and her--from investigating a case that appears to be
closed....
Amazon.com Review Brenner's called back to investigate the murder of a young army
lieutenant by his captain. The catch is, the crime took place during
the heat of the Tet Offensive, and the only living witness was a
North Vietnamese soldier who described the incident in a 30-year-old
letter that has only recently come to light. Soon Brenner, a Vietnam
vet, is on an ostensible nostalgia tour of his old stomping grounds.
The trip immediately turns dangerous as he heads "up country" to
search for the letter writer, accompanied by a gorgeous American
businesswoman, who's hiding more than even the smartest CID officer
could imagine.
Amazon.com Review John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As
revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the
gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of
bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad,
raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his
surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty
rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims his rage at the
infidels. The boy's got such a gift for terrorism he's earned the
nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted
émigré mentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of
America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF
(Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A
pity Boris must die, but hey, he's an infidel too...
Amazon.com Review Nelson DeMille's narrative engine is one of the best in the
business, and it chugs away in grand style in this story of buried
treasure and biological warfare on a tiny spit of land off Long
Island. As told by a wry, wounded New York City detective who is
drafted to explore a couple of murders, Plum Island is a rich
pudding of flavorful (if familiar) ingredients, including a
ferocious storm at sea.
