More than 30 million copies are in print worldwide. He has lived on Long Island most of his life, is a passionate traveler and a Vietnam veteran. Mr. DeMille prides himself on breaking the mold with each new book. Plum Island is his most recent. It s got to be entertaining, according to Nelson DeMille who has graced every major Best Seller list in America and has thirty million copies in print worldwide.
Writers are entertainers.
Dickens, Shakespeare, Austen, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway were all writing popular fiction. They were writing about basic human themes set in their own times. They re now classics because they wrote well. DeMille s latest hit is Plum Island , published by Warner Books. It s a thriller that combines a double homicide with fears both of modern biological technology gone awry and international terrorists plus local Long Island lore.