Yes, as they say on the covers of his books, I have 'discovered DeMille.' And he's awesome! Many readers over the years have recommended Nelson DeMille to me, including the MD of Pan Macmillan Australia , no less. So late last year, I decided to give Night Fall a go.

In short, not only does Mr DeMille give you a good thriller/mystery, he's also bloody funny. No, really, laugh-out-loud funny. His hero (in these books), John Corey, is simply fantastic -- witty, droll, brilliant, and he knows it!

Night Fall addressed the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, and was a brilliant balance of humour amid a real life tragedy.

The Lion's Game was an awesome idea, but was (in my humble opinion, and since Mr D has sold 53 million more books than I have, it is a very humble opinion) too long. The basic premise: a Libyan terrorist who lost his family in a 1986 US air raid on Libya comes to the States to wreak his vengeance on the pilots who carried out the raid, plus a whole lot more.

Plum Island is the first book to feature John Corey. It is smaller, less epic in its scale and scope, but perhaps it is the best. It centres around the deaths of two scientists working at the biological facility at Plum Island . Funny, very clever, and just a good read. (Reviewed February 2005)