Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille wrote action, adventure and suspense novels, among them Plum Island, The Charm School and The General's Daughter, the last of which became a film starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. He wrote twenty-four novels in all, and seven of them reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Before his death in 2024, he was a combat-decorated U.S. Army veteran and a past president of the Mystery Writers of America.