For Corey, their job description lies under the heading of “biological germ warfare.” Corey is paired with a local homicide detective, Elizabeth Penrose and must navigate the bureaucratic jealousies of the CIA, FBI and possible other government agencies represented by FBI agent, George Foster, and the supposed Department of Agriculture operative, Ted Nash. Plum Island is part of the Department of Agriculture and theoretically conducts research to prevent disease and pandemics. biologists who conducted biological research on Plum Island, Drs. Corey, a rather sarcastic and humorous individual is approached by Sylvester Maxwell the Chief of Police in Southold Township in Suffolk County, who asks for his assistance with the murder of two Ph.D. Corey, recovering from three bullet wounds suffered six months earlier is sitting on his uncle’s porch convalescing peering out into the Long Island Sound. The center becomes a focal point for a murder investigation involving New York police detective, John Corey. The title of the book was the location and name of an animal disease center research facility on the tip of Long Island.

While perusing my bookshelves I noticed that there were three John Corey novels that I had never read so I immediately took the plunge and opened PLUM ISLAND.Īfter the recent Ebola crisis in Africa that resulted in a few cases of the disease in the United States my choice of PLUM ISLAND was rather timely. After reading an interview with Greg Iles, who mentioned that DeMille was one of his favorite writers, I decided to revisit his work. For years Nelson DeMille was one of my favorite fiction writers, and for some reason I did not pick up another of his books for a number of years.

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