Plum Island (John Corey #1)
Author(s): Nelson DeMille
SECONDHAND BOOKS | General Fiction
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 they'd stolen some valuable new vaccine, or even a dreaded virus? They'd obviously outspent their income. Had they been running drugs? Corey doesn't think so, although an ice-chest missing from their home points to something forbidden.
He teams up with Beth Penrose, detective, working her first homicide & their visit to Plum Island reveals only that the FBI & CIA have sanitised the place. Then Corey falls in with Emma Whitehouse, an expert on Captain Kidd's lost treasure which is thought to be buried nearby
Time Warner, 2005. A paperback copy in very good, clean condition.
Product Information
* First UK publication of a runaway No.1 American bestseller in hardback. * A writer of nerve-shredding suspense and wry humour
Nelson DeMille was born in New York City in 1943. He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Hofstra University with a degree of Political Science and History. After serving as an infantry officer in Vietnam, where he was decorated three times, DeMille worked as a journalist and short story writer. He wrote his first major novel, By the Rivers of Babylon, in 1978 and has gone on to write many other international bestsellers, with sales of over 55 million copies in 24 languages. He lives on Long Island.
General Fields
- :
- : Little Brown
- : Sphere
- : 0.308
- : April 1998
- : 179mm X 121mm X 39mm
- : April 2005
- : books
Special Fields
- : map
- : Adult
- : 813.54
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Nelson DeMille