Plum Island

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Summary: great writer
Review: DeMille is the best suspense writer out there. I read very little fiction because it doesn't hold my interest, but his books will keep you guessing until the end. Never predictable or dull, this is one of his best works. Highly reccomended.

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Summary: great beach book
Review: Nelson DeMille at his ultimate best. Will not disappoint. This book combines biological warfare with pirate treasure. Great book to bring along on the beach. Fast page turner! Hard to put down. Can't wait to read another DeMille book. JOhn Corey is a funny character and unforgettable.

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Summary: Plum Island Animal Disease Research center..sounds charming
Review: Plum Island for me ranks as one of the best books in the Genre, and it is the kind of book I love to read.

It takes place in a great setting being the far tip of Long Island, and gets into what is going on at Plum Island and the history of Pirates in the reigon.

John Corey is our guide through this story which is interesting from the first sentence to the last.

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Summary: Just read it for the third time, keeps getting better
Review: Nelson DeMille is the only author in America whose work I will buy in hardback sight unseen. He is the only author whose work I will read over and over again and seemingly enjoy more each time. This one has it all: DeMille's alter-ego engaging wit in the flesh of detective John Corey and a tremendous plot that involves murder, a fascinating treasure hunt that dredges up the history of Captain Kidd and a very plausible end-of-the-world terrorist scenario. DeMille also creates some of the best villains in fiction. I can't decide who I wanted to dismember more: Frederick Tobin or Paul Stevens. This is absolutely a great read that was funny, engaging, suspensful and ended up being a great history lesson along the way. Take it on vacation and you may not want to leave the room.

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Summary: Well done
Review: Plum Island was an entertaining, enjoyable book - filled with subplots and multiple storylines that keep the reader engaged. The novel follows John Connor, a New York City police detective who is spending time on the north shore of Long Island recovering from wounds sustained on the job. He is pulled into the investigation of the double murder of a couple he was acquainted with. As the story unfolds, Corey must test his physical abilities and emotional ties to the case while using his intellect, inquisitiveness, and decisiveness to outwit the forces arrayed against him as he seeks to solve this crime. Told in the first person from Corey's perspective, DeMille provides a humorous (in a sarcastic, deadpan sort of way) character that has depth and likeability. Plum Island was worth my time.

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Summary: Plum Island
Review: As with the other books written by Nelson DeMille he has NOT failed in keeping you glue to the book, and always wanting more. This is a exciting book, and recommended. I have read 5 of his books and can not wait for the next.

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Summary: Stop . . . .you're killing me!
Review: I like the DeMille characters. John Corey is the kind of character that pops up in Vietnam as an officer or an enlisted man, on airplanes, or working for "the Company." If you like that style of protaganist, wise-cracking, irreverant, rough around the edges, funny but self-effacing nonetheless, you'll enjoy the heck out of Plum Island. If you don't, go back to LeCarre and Furst, two distinguished authors who write great novels and where nowhere in their body of work appear anyone even remotely resembling John Corey.

Corey is a New York City Detective recuperating from a near fatal shoot out. He's staying out on Long Island where DeMille grew up and still lives, I understand, in far posher environs.

Corey, like all good protagonists, very reluctantly gets drawn into a web of intrigue, lies, arrogance, sex and murder that mark all DeMille (and all good) mysteries.

If this is your cup of tea, or glass of beer, or flute of champagne, you're in for a real treat.

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Summary: Thin; unrealistic; sexist
Review: This is not a book that rises above genre conventions to do something interesting. For one thing, it's really difficult to get past the cliched characterizations and contempt for women that this book displays. Author writes with a sense of humor, sort of a smug tone that can sometimes make you laugh and livens up the otherwise fairly conventional narrative. But ultimately, it is just way too falsely macho/masculinist for me; the women are ALWAYS evaluated on their physical attributes (described in cliched fashion) and then they must sleep with the protagonist and (look out) fall into jeopardy. The most stereotypical sexist approach to women characters possible--which just makes it boring; the attitude towards women is completely condescending and betraying some kind of weird masculine anxiety when it's not just straightforwardly frat-boyish. The strangest part is that the talk about women seems tacked on, almost like the author feels compelled to throw in these comments because the plot itself is not compelling.

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Summary: Kept me up til 4AM!
Review: At my age, most books help me get to sleep. But when I read this book, I was riveted. The historical local details DeMille gives and his sarcastic wit are two of the reasons I'm going back for more DeMille. This story is even more relevant in light of the current events at Plum Island.

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Summary: THIS PLUM ISLAND WON'T MAKE YOU SICK
Review: I Don't know what the other reviewers were reading, to think that this book was slow and unfunny. These are probably the people who laugh at puns and riddles on P.B.S. I don't know how to make it more clear, I loved Plum Island, especially the lead character John Corey he made me laugh out loud (haha) funny dialogue.
This is my first Demille novel and I loved his writing style. Demille is very good all around, his characters are well developed, his mystery is well structured, the action is great, and his rap up is fun fun fun.
I quickly ran out and purchased "The Lion's Game" just because John Corey is featured in it. I love this Guy.