Plum Island (novel)

"Plum Island" is a 1998 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It introduces NYPD detective John Corey, convalescing on the North Fork of Long Island from gunshot wounds sustained in the line of duty. The local chief of police Sylvester Maxwell asks Corey to act as consultant in a local murder investigation, the two victims Tom and Judy Gordon being personally known to Corey and, worryingly, employees on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a facility suspected of carrying out biological warfare research. The other parties involved in the investigation are Beth Penrose, a Suffolk County detective, George Foster, an FBI agent and Ted Nash, who claims to represent the Department of Agriculture, but is immediately recognised by Corey as a CIA "spook".

After deducing what he could from the murder scene, Corey convinces the other operatives on the case that a trip to the Plum Island facility on the earliest possible ferry would shed light on a possible motive behind the double murder. Upon arrival at the island, Corey finds that Mssrs. Nash and Foster have already visited the facility, as he had guessed they would.

The sequel to the story is "The Lion's Game".

External links

[http://www.nelsondemille.net/books/plum_island.asp Plum Island on Nelson DeMille's Official Website]