Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille is one of America’s most popular and bestselling authors, and a new book from him is a keenly awaited event. A former US Army lieutenant who served in Vietnam, he lives in Long Island, New York.

Lived: 1943 -

Alias: Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Brad Matthews

Author Of

Radiant Angel

“A soft breeze fluttered the white, blue, and red Russian flag in front of the U.N. mission. I remember when the Soviet hammer and sickle flew there. I kind of miss the Cold War. But I think it’s back.” RADIANT ANGEL After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey(…)

The Sniper

As sirens wail in the heat of a city night, an over-burdened police department is up against a crime wave that’s spreading like blood from an open wound. Joe Ryker is a cop from the old school. Homicide is his job. Murder is his life. He’s one man with a rifle, choosing his victims at(…)

The Hammer of God

A man in monk’s robes is butchering women to cleanse the world of witches. And Sgt. Joe Ryker’s committing every sin in the book to cleanse New York of killers.Beneath the wealth, the squalor and the hustle of Manhattan, a string of sickening murders has opened the door on a secret world of pagan worship(…)

The Smack Man

Someone is slipping hot-shots–strychnine-laced heroin–to New York’s hookers. Sgt. Joe Ryker couldn’t care less, but the corpses are starting to litter his beat.When the brass teams him up with a beautiful detective and a cop posing as her pimp, Ryker’s just along for the ride–until one of his partners ends up dead. Suddenly the big-fisted(…)

Plum Island

NYPD homicide detective John Corey has moved to Long Island, restlessly recuperating from wounds received in the line of duty when he’s hired to consult on the murder of Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists who worked on Plum Island, the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture. Were the Gordons murdered because(…)

The Lion’s Game

April 1986 : American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad – Arabic for “lion ” – loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his religion(…)

Night Fall

On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and Janet Whitney conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera, set to record each steamy moment. Suddenly a terrible explosion lights up the sky. Grabbing the camera, the couple flees as approaching police cars speed toward the scene. Five years later, the(…)

The General’s Daughter

Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell, when her body was found – naked and bound – on the firing range of Fort Hadley. This political powder keg of a case goes directly to elite army investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist(…)

Rendezvous

A band of soldiers in its last month of service in Vietnam goes out on a patrol through enemy territory with a female sniper in its path. territory only to find a female Viet Cong sniper in its path. Recounting the mission in shattering and sometimes gruesome detail, DeMille creates a concise masterpiece of moody(…)

MayDay

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes the Trans Flight 52, a supersonic passenger jet bound for Japan. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master story-teller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes MAYDAY –(…)

Wild Fire

Welcome to the Custer Hill Club–a men’s club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America’s most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to relax with old friends. But one fall weekend, the club’s executive board gathers to talk about the tragedy(…)

The Lion

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion’s Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as “The Lion.” Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the(…)

The Panther

Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield have been posted overseas to Sana’a, Yemen – one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking(…)

The Gold Coast

The upmarket and salubrious area of Long Island is the stamping ground for a dying breed of America’s super-rich. It is also the residence of John Sutter, lawyer – very top-drawer, old money, right clubs – and his sensual wife, Susan. Their lives are about to be turned dramatically upside down by their new ‘next-door’(…)

The Gate House

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast. When John Sutter’s aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has(…)

Word of Honor

Ben Tyson is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest handsome family man, admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There, in 1968, the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity – and together swore never to tell the world what(…)

Up Country

Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career’s worth of favours,(…)

By the Rivers of Babylon

They were forced to meet by the rivers of Babylon… In Israel, two Concorde jets take off for a UN conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignatories – and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.(…)

Cathedral

St Patrick’s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act – the seizure of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once(…)

Spencerville

After twenty-five years of working in the shadowy world of espionage Keith Landry is on his way home. Driving along the highway, humming a few bars of ‘Homeward Bound’, the twenty-five years’ service he has given the US government are fast becoming a distant memory. He is safe. He is alone. And life has never(…)

The Charm School

Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson. The undergraduates sprawled around a game board aren’t chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American. When a young tourist goes to the aid of(…)

The Talbot Odyssey

For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole – code-named Talbot – inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb(…)

The Quest

A timeless story that has resonated for 2,000 years… From the dusty archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, an unlikely crew of four begins a deadly search for the Holy Grail. Two reporters, a devastatingly beautiful photographer, and a mercenary soldier are caught in the center of an Ethiopian civil war.(…)

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