Nelson DeMille

I was a member of another group called the Adams Roundtable, which is a bunch of mystery writers that used to have lunch together once a month.

It was founded by Mary Higgins Clark, and over the years, our membership included Lawrence Block, uh, Peter Straub, um, Susan Isaacs, Judith Kellman, uh, Lee Child, Nelson DeMille, so we had a lot of writers.

And one time the subject came up of what's the scariest noise in the world? Is it a man screaming, a man torture? Is it a wife crying? Is it a woman d- you know, what...

We went on and on, and a guy named Warren Murphy, who is a wonderful writer, who's deceased now.

So I sit in the tub and read in the mornings, uh, spare people the visual.

Um, I am reading Nelson DeMille's, uh, book plum island and nelson demille sort of like i don't know i guess a pop action thriller writer but i read the lions game which is prophetic and in uh that book is insane you know knowing that we're coming up on the anniversary of 9-11 because he wrote about a story before 9-11 happened that again was prophetic like you're like this is eerie that this dude wrote this book but um I think part of it resonates with me because I lived in New York, and when he talks about John Corey, who's a main character, he's this NYPD homicide detective or cop.

So Plum Island is great, and it's like you don't want to put down Nelson DeMille's books.

You want to keep going.

They're like 500, 600 pages, but I work through them really fast because they're so engaging.

But you read books.

You read Leon Uris and Nelson DeMille and the summer Alex Haley and Inferno.

I mean, you just read trash novels.

I went out there reading Aeschylus.

And my idols and my favorite writers back then in terms of the crime genre were Elmore Dutch Leonard, who would come on my talk shows on KFMB when he had a new book and his book tours and so forth.

Nelson DeMille, also gone as is Dutch Leonard and same thing on his book tours.

And I thought Nelson was terrific, funny, elmore dutch leonard was had funny characters but it wasn't it wasn't laugh out loud stuff nelson demille was left out loud and then i realized oh my god don winslow is really great story fantastic characters and laugh out loud about every page and so as i normally do when i discover an author i read the one in this case the force i'll give you an idea uh His name just, of course, flew right out of my mind.

In New York City, a sports writer who you would probably know, who also is an author of books.

He writes for the family of Robert B. Parker, who was one of the great crime novelists of all time out of Boston.