Nelson DeMille

The return of the spy Secret agents like to stay in the shadows, but these days they're in plain sight. If 2008 hasn't already been the year of the spy, the fall list is going to make it so. This year has already seen an elegant new novel from historical...

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS FICTION 1. "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 2. "Creation in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult) 3. "Protect and Defend: A Thriller" by Vince Flynn (Atria Books) 4. "Book of the Dead" by...

For some, the missile theory will live forever. Others are convinced that TWA Flight 800 was shot down by friendly fire by the U.S. Navy, which was doing military exercises that night. And there are those who still believe the Boeing 747 was felled by a...

It's one of the most controversial and least-understood institutions on Long Island. The Plum Island Animal Disease Center has been the setting for a 1997 best-selling novel by Nelson DeMille in which the lab is rumored to be engaging - erroneously,...

For writer Nelson DeMille, Long Island was the frontier. As a young boy in the late '40s, the future author of ``Plum Island,'' ``The Gold Coast'' and other best-selling thrillers moved from Jamaica to Elmont. Back then, this wasn't simply a matter of...

Swimsuit weather is finally here, and you'll need something to do while perfecting that glorious sunburn. Assuming that you're, like, so over the whole knitting craze, you might want to dust off another cobwebby summer tradition: the beach book. And...

Here are the best sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec.10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing...

Friday June 18, 1999      Like a sinking fly ball that converging outfielders can't quite reach, "The General's Daughter" is what baseball announcers call a 'tweener. A middling, so-so thriller about a murder investigation on an Army base, it falls to...