25 Best Nelson DeMille Books

Recovering from gunshot wounds on Long Island, NYPD detective John Corey is asked to consult on the double murder of two biologists from a nearby government lab. The case veers from stolen pathogens to buried pirate treasure and small-town secrets.

John Corey and his wife Kate are sent to Yemen to help hunt a high-ranking Al Qaeda leader tied to the USS Cole bombing. Working with a small American team, they navigate tribal politics, deadly ambushes, and the suspicion that not everyone wants them home alive.

When a fellow agent is found dead near an exclusive Adirondack hunting club, John Corey and Kate Mayfield investigate and uncover a secret plan code-named Wild Fire: a privately run nuclear response meant to reshape the world after another major attack.

Five years after a passenger jet exploded off Long Island, John Corey and his FBI-agent wife Kate revisit the crash as a potential crime scene. A missing videotape, frightened witnesses, and official resistance pull them toward a truth others want buried.

In Cold War Russia, a young American driver meets a fugitive U.S. POW who claims to have escaped a secret camp where Americans train Soviet spies. An Air Force officer and embassy liaison risk their careers and lives to uncover the truth behind this "charm school."

At a Southern Army base, the brilliant daughter of a famous general is found murdered on a firing range. CID investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill must navigate military politics and buried scandals to uncover who killed the Army’s "golden girl."

Tax attorney John Sutter enjoys a comfortable life among Long Island’s old-money elite until Mafia don Frank Bellarosa buys the neighboring estate. As Bellarosa pulls John into his legal troubles and schemes, Sutter’s marriage and morals begin to quietly unravel.

Libyan assassin Asad Khalil, the Lion, returns to America to settle unfinished business with John Corey. As bodies linked to past operations begin to fall, Corey must anticipate a brilliant enemy who has turned the hunt into something personal.

Now with the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, John Corey watches a flight carrying a notorious Libyan terrorist land with everyone aboard mysteriously dead. When the assassin slips away, Corey and partner Kate Mayfield race to stop his ruthless revenge campaign.

Afghanistan veteran and Key West charter-boat captain Daniel "Mac" MacCormick is hired by Cuban exiles to recover a fortune hidden in Cuba since the revolution. Disguised as tourists, Mac and a young Cuban-American woman must outmaneuver state security, rival factions, and their own suspicions.

Retired Army CID investigator Paul Brenner is pulled back into service and sent to Vietnam to solve a 30-year-old wartime murder. Traveling with a mysterious American expatriate, he confronts corruption, old enemies, and his own memories of combat.

On St. Patrick’s Day in New York, an IRA splinter group seizes St. Patrick’s Cathedral and takes hundreds of hostages. Police, politicians, and British intelligence clash over how to end the siege before hidden explosives can turn the landmark into a tomb.

Assigned to surveil Russian diplomats in New York, John Corey expects a quiet posting until one of his targets disappears from a Long Island party. Following the trail, he uncovers a plot involving a covert nuclear device and a looming attack on Manhattan.

After the Cold War ends, former Army intelligence officer Keith Landry retires and returns to his small Midwestern hometown. Reuniting with his first love, now married to the town’s abusive police chief, he finds himself drawn into a personal war he can’t walk away from.

A decade after leaving Long Island in the wake of scandal and violence, John Sutter returns to live in the gatehouse of his former in-laws’ estate. Reunited with his ex-wife and confronted by a Mafia heir seeking revenge, he’s drawn back into dangerous games among the rich.

Successful executive and Vietnam veteran Ben Tyson is suddenly accused of covering up a massacre his platoon committed in Hue. Recalled to active duty for court-martial, he must confront buried memories, loyalty to his men, and a nation still divided over the war.

A missile strikes a passenger jet high above the Pacific, leaving its crew dead or incapacitated. A handful of survivors must find a way to land the aircraft while facing damaged systems and threats beyond the cabin.

Army investigators Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are sent to Venezuela to recover a captain who deserted his unit. Their search through unstable territory raises questions about his motives, their orders, and the interests behind the mission.

Two Concorde jets carrying Israeli leaders to historic peace talks are sabotaged and forced toward hostile territory. One is destroyed; the other crash-lands near ancient Babylon, where the survivors must create a makeshift fortress and hold off a well-armed enemy force.

Restless in forced retirement, John Corey agrees to join a sketchy private security firm on Long Island. The job draws him into a tangle of corrupt cops, missing women, and a serial killer whose dumping ground echoes the real-life Gilgo Beach murders.

Amid Ethiopia’s civil war, two journalists and a photographer encounter a dying priest who claims to know the hiding place of the Holy Grail. Their decision to believe him launches a dangerous journey through jungle battlefields, remote monasteries, and competing faiths.

Former NYPD intelligence detective Tony Abrams stumbles onto evidence that a long-buried Soviet mole code-named Talbot still operates inside U.S. intelligence. As a secret first-strike plan moves forward, he and a young lawyer race to identify the traitor and stop catastrophe.

Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor reunite in Berlin to investigate the murder of a fellow Army investigator. His unexplained movements lead them through conflicting agencies, hidden networks, and tensions shaped by Germany’s past and present.

In his early NYPD days, John Corey investigates when a New York bookseller is killed by a falling bookcase. The cluttered shop and its tight circle of employees, authors, and family members hide motives that turn an apparent mishap into a clever murder.

At a remote Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor probe the death of a scientist overseeing war games between Rangers and lethal autonomous robots. As alliances fracture, they must decide whether the real threat is human or machine.