Nelson DeMille - Works

Works

DeMille often uses Long Island as a setting in his novels, as in The Gold Coast, Plum Island, Word of Honor, and Night Fall. His most recent novels have followed two main characters, John Corey (starring in six novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, with also a part in Corey's sixth novel). In earlier works, the storylines were completely separate, but there have been hints in the novels that they are part of a larger "DeMille Universe" that references events and characters in earlier novels, such as The Gold Coast and The Charm School.

DeMille has written himself into Up Country and Wild Fire. He spends approximately two years crafting each of his novels due to the extensive research involved, and because he writes them longhand on legal pads with a number one pencil.The author himself states that he writes in longhand on legal pads, most recently in the acknowledgments following "The Panther".

One of his most recent efforts, the 2011 Mystery Writers of America Annual Anthology The Rich and the Dead, edited by DeMille, and to which he contributed its introduction and first story, was released May 2, 2011.

DeMille has released his latest book, THE PANTHER, in the John Corey series on October 16, 2012. The setting is a troubled Yemen of 2004, in a follow-up investigation of the terrorist USS Cole bombing.