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Some Of My Favorite Books Could Fall Under Murder/Mystery, True Crime. I Included The Original Books Summary.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse, or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive—until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl . . . as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that several top-level people may have been involved with the "golden girl" - and many have wanted her dead.

A #1 New York Times Best Seller, Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me gives us a unique perspective into the hidden world of Ted Bundy. Rule gives a chilling and intimate description of her time at a crisis hotline alongside her co-worker, the then charming, sensitive and trustworthy Ted Bundy, and the devastating realization that he was a brutal killer hiding in plain sight. After multiple arrests and an escape from jail, Bundy would later confess to the murders of at least thirty-six women and soon after was executed for three cases. Rule, a certified instructor for police training seminars, prosecutors and forensic science organizations, delves into how this savage killer -- a man she thought she knew -- could have fooled so many, including a professional like herself.

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Humor Quote By Nelson DeMille “Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.” Nelson DeMille, - The General's Daughter

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Muzzled - Michael Smerconish

Muzzled From T-Ball to Terrorism--True Stories That Should Be Fiction Michael Smerconish Genre: Political Science Price: $2.99 Publish Date: March 11, 2007 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Seller: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Sick of the total BS of rampant PC? This brazen, furiously funny book is the antidote to today's poison of political correctness. With humor and chutzpah, attorney, commentator, and popular radio host Michael Smerconish takes on today's oversensitive culture with a collection of entertaining, outlandish anecdotes about PC gone wild-stories that are hilarious, horrifying, and unbelievably true. Why are sports leagues handing out trophies to losers? Why are little old grandmas hired to guard 200-pound prisoners? Why are newborn babies and old men with walkers singled out at the airport while likely terrorists are ushered through security with ease? This book shows through these absurdities that today's atmosphere of censorship and multiculturalism is paving the way for serious threats to our cultural identity and national security: "It's one thing for the forces of political correctness to muzzle our day-to-day lives here at home in the US, quite another when that same cancer metastasizes into the war on terror." We must eradicate the PC disease. Our sanity-and our very lives-depend on it. "Michael Smerconish talks the talk: If you say unpopular things, watch out! Using vivid examples of PC rubbish, Muzzled will lead you into a world that would terrify Rod Serling. An entertaining and provocative book." - Bill O'Reilly "Reads like fiction, too bad it's true." - Nelson DeMille , novelist, author of Night Fall and The General's Daughter "The PC virus is out of control . . . and it's worse than you think! In this entertaining and important book, Michael Smerconish chronicles just how mindless things have gotten in politically correct America. He tells fascinating stories that will make you laugh . . . right up until the time they make you scream. Thanks to the PC crowd, we are all living in The United States of the Absurd." - Bernard Goldberg , journalist and author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America , Arrogance , and Bias "I really squirm whenever I find myself agreeing with Smerconish. (I know the feeling is mutual.) I did a lot of squirming while reading this provocative book. All true liberals and conservatives must agree with Smerconish that the PC muzzles must be removed so that people can decide based on the marketplace of ideas." - Alan Dershowitz , Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard and author of Preemption "I don't often find myself on the same side of the political barricades as Michael Smerconish. But Muzzled is a witty, provocative, and timely book. Even when Michael is wrong, which is often, he draws you in and keeps you reading." - Arianna Huffington , author of Pigs at the Trough and Fanatics and Fools "In Muzzled, my American Blood Brother of status-quo-obliterating defiance, Michael Smerconish, once again smokes out the cockroaches of political correctness . . . Muzzled is a great title for a book that I am convinced every American school kid should read and be tested on. If a new generation doesn't grow some intellectual balls, our Once Great Nation will continue to repeat horrific mistakes and pay the price . . . Read it. Live it." - Ted Nugent , rock star, author, television personality, and hunter extraordinaire http://bit.ly/2LLy8AG

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marjaystuff · 5 years

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Elise Cooper Interviews Nelson DeMille

The Deserter by prolific author Nelson DeMille is co-written with his son, Alex DeMille. Readers will not be disappointed. After all, what is there not to like with a DeMille novel. It has a thrilling mystery, engaging characters, and humorous/sarcastic banter.

The story seems to be based on Bowe Berghdal, a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan who walked away from his post, had two of his peers killed trying to find him, and was caught by the Taliban who kept him in supposed captivity. But then the plot takes a twist and turn. Delta Force Army Officer Kyle Mercer, the Berghdal supposed character, has escaped the Taliban by beheading his captors and fleeing to Venezuela. After being spotted by an old army buddy the top military brass decide to send two members of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) to that socialist evil country to find Mercer and bring him back for trial of desertion. Scott Brodie, a former infantry soldier in Iraq, now a top CID investigator is teamed with Maggie Taylor a former Civil Affairs E-5 in Afghanistan, who is working for CID. While Brodie is wise-cracking, arrogant, and someone who has trouble following orders, Taylor is a by the books person who tries to rein in Brodie.

As the investigation takes hold it becomes apparent that there is more behind Mercer’s desertion. Brodie and Taylor find disturbing and treacherous secrets by lofty officials in the military and intelligence agencies. The question becomes has the government been involved in immoral activities, in other words it is the deep state implementing unethical deeds. This is what DeMille is best at, offering conspiracy theories to make a riveting storyline.

The DeMilles have written a classic Nelson DeMille book that has politics, espionage, and suspense. Readers are taken on a roller coaster ride in this action-filled story. An added bonus is the description of Venezuela in historical terms where it has become a “country on the edge, economically desperate, with weak and corrupt institutions and a government openly hostile to American interests.”

Elise Cooper: Why CID officers?

Nelson DeMille: This profession was chosen because they can travel anywhere in the world. If we had chosen local cops then the setting would be stuck in a particular municipality or if Federal Agents like the FBI they would be limited to mainly traveling around this country. The CID has authority wherever this is an American military base.

EC: Why have a co-author?

ND: It was proposed to the publisher as a co-authored three book series. Before deciding on my son Alex, I had another co-author. The plot did have a CID guy partnering with a female. But the setting was in Paris, which has no life to it. What is the worst thing that can happen there; the character would eat too much rich French food? Plus, the first-co-author was just a schlub. After Alex took over, he decided to set the story in a dangerous place, Venezuela, and really developed the female character. Now the story took on a new life.

EC: Bowe Bergdahl influenced the bad guy character?

ND: Somewhat. He was the impetus of the novel, but there was a departure from his story compared to what happened to the character. Alex did a lot of research so we had a feeling for the case.

EC: What was it like writing with your son?

ND: It was a challenge. We would email each other back and forth. He wrote the first draft of every chapter and I played editor. I also did some inserts, re-writes, and did an overall tough editing. When it was completely finished we went page by page looking it over.

EC: What was it like writing with your dad?

Alex DeMille: It was educational. I was optimistic and knew it would work since he has been writing novels for so many years. This time around I did not feel his equal. I took all his feedback seriously. After all, the book had his name on it so it had to be a good story.

EC: You like to have CIA characters with the name Ted?

ND: You are referring to Ted Nash, the nemesis of John Corey. This book had a CIA character named Ted Haggerty. A funny story. We have charity auctions for naming book characters. Someone named Ted Haggerty won it. The “Ted” stuck me and I decided to hold on to that name and introduce him as a CIA character.

EC: Compare this book’s hero, Scott Brodie, to John Corey?

ND: The common denominator is that they both are cops so they have the same mindset. We changed Brodie purposely by giving him a rural background from upstate New York rather than growing up in East Manhattan. We also made Brodie’s thinking different than Corey although the sarcasm is the same. Both are arrogant, smartasses, macho men. Much of this banter and the military jargon was written by me.

AD: Brodie is the architype that my dad writes, the wiseass intelligent rule breaker, but I made him more responsible than Corey who takes pride in people underestimating him. I wrote this book in the third person, similar to what my dad did in his earlier novels. I wanted to distinguish this book from the John Corey books.

EC: Was Operation Phoenix and Operation Flagstaff true?

ND: Operation Phoenix, yes but not Operation Flagstaff; although I hope it seemed realistic and plausible. Someone once said Afghanistan is Vietnam without the jungle. Both are guerilla wars. In Vietnam, the killings were up close and personal, while in Afghanistan the drones do the killings of a bunch of Taliban. In both cases there were civilian casualties. In Vietnam, the CIA recruited army officers to do their dirty work. In the book, we wanted to make Operation Flagstaff similar to Operation Phoenix, which is why there is this quote, “Special Ops became black ops when the CIA got involved as happened in Vietnam.”

EC: Did you read any of your dad’s books for background?

AD: I read the book before this one, The Cuban Affair. Because I adapted the screenplay, I read Spencerville numerous times. I did read The General’s Daughter and Up Country because the main character was a CID officer. Some of the darker scenes I wrote humorlessly, but my dad is really good at being able to write some humor where life at its worse. Sometimes my dad would add some humor to it.

EC: What research did you do?

AD: I spent a lot of time on Google maps to make a map of Caracas. I had a sense of what the topography was like. I also found videos on YouTube and spoke with a number of Venezuelans who left and were able to give me the subtle cultural and political understanding.

EC: How would you describe the bad guy, Kyle Mercer?

AD: He was patriotic and a member of an elite force. Mercer was taken advantage of by the powers that be and came to a place where he no longer respects authority. Because of what he was asked to do he lost respect for himself. I would compare him to the Frankenstein monster character. They were put on this destructive path, but it was not their fault.

EC: Where is the relationship going with Brodie and Taylor?

AD: I like to tease what will happen like a TV show such as “Friends” with Ross and Rachel. Both are very job oriented and are tied to the career. They want to be good partners and not wreck it up sexually. I want it to be organic to the story.

EC: What do you want the reader to get out of the book?

ND: My intention is not to run down the military. I wanted to make it clear that even though my bad guy is military, he is rogue, and is not what the military is about. I did contrast him with the CID officers Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor to make it clear this was not an anti-military/ anti-war book. It is about people who volunteered to serve, some doing it right and some doing it wrong. I am personally pro-military and hope it comes out in the story.

EC: Can you give a heads up about your next book?

AD: The setting is in Berlin. It will be out in Autumn 2021, and Brodie will still partner with Taylor. In the next book, my dad and I will not do this back and forth editing, but will have a different process than what we did with this book.

ND: I am working on the eighth John Corey book, probably out in 2021, and called The Maze. This book opens exactly where Plum Island opened, with Corey at his Uncle’s house and chilling on the back porch. He hears footsteps and sees Beth Penrose, a Suffolk County police detective. Since he is now estranged from his wife there is a little re-spark between John and Beth. She offers him a job as a private investigator in the Hamptons. After he takes the job, he gets involved in something much bigger than he thought.

EC: Is there going to be a TV series on John Corey?

ND: Still working on the series. The screenplay for the first proposed episode in the TV series changed everything so much he was not even John Corey. It made no sense and was just awful.

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Il film consigliato stasera in TV: "LA FIGLIA DEL GENERALE" sabato 7 settembre 2019

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La figlia del generale (The General’s Daughter) è un film del 1999 diretto da Simon West, tratto dall’omonimo romanzo del 1992 di Nelson DeMille.

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CON GÁI TƯỚNG QUÂN (The General’s Daughter)

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The General's Daughter (1999) 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 18 June 1999 (USA)

Director: Simon WestWriters: Nelson DeMille, Christopher BertoliniStars: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell

Summary: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.

Countries: USA, GermanyLanguages: English

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Born August 23, 1943, Nelson DeMille took a break from studying at Hofstra University to enlist in the Army and serve in Vietnam. Earning a degree when he returned, he published his first NYPD detective novel in 1978. He’s perhaps best known for his John Corey novels, and ‘The General’s Daughter’. 📚 “Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.” ― Nelson DeMille 📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙 #gasstationburrito #books #bookquotes #authorquotes #quotes # #Instaquotes #igquotes #literaryhistory #onthisday #nelsondemille #thegeneralsdaughter #august23 #johncorey #paulbrenner https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm1JG6iAShG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q5nfhff8fus

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Millennials' love of family trips likely to boost travel in 2018

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Millennials' love of family trips likely to boost travel in 2018

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Millennials are embracing family travel, which could translate into economic growth in tourism-heavy destinations like Southern Utah, according to new research by the auto club AAA.

In fact, Millennial travel is expected to accelerate this year, according to the report, which showed 44 percent of Millennials are planning a family getaway this year.

That means the Millennial generation is for the first time more likely than any other to take a family trip. By comparison, 39 percent of respondents from Generation X and just 32 percent of Baby Boomers travel plans.

“Just like generations before them, Millennials see a family vacation as one of the best ways to create memories and reconnect with loved ones,” Michael Blasky, spokesman for AAA Utah, said in an email. “No matter their age, families are going on not just one, but multiple vacations throughout the year to revisit favorite destinations and experience new places.”

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The news is encouraging for local economies where travel and tourism play a key role, including in southern Utah, where one out of every five jobs is associated with tourism.

The state has invested heavily in promoting its reputation for outdoor recreation, especially with advertising plans built around skiing and the state’s “Mighty 5” national parks.

Zion National Park saw 4.5 million visitors in 2017, making it the third-most visited park in the U.S., and four of the state’s five parks reported record numbers of visitors.

Travelers to Utah spent $8.4 billion in 2016, helping to support more than 144,000 jobs and an estimated $5.6 billion in total wages, according to a report published earlier this month by the Gardner Policy Institute.

“Travelers and tourists are directly contributing to Utah’s state and local coffers, paying sales and hotel taxes,” said Juliette Tennert, director of economic and public policy research at the institute.

Washington County showed the second-fastest employment growth in the state among jobs in leisure and hospitality, up 22 percent from 2012 to 2016. Last year 16.6 percent of all jobs countywide came from that industry sector.

Neighboring Iron County wasn’t far behind. It grew 21.3 percent over the same time frame, with 18.9 percent of all jobs coming from leisure and hospitality.

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The trend is expected to continue in many places for 2018 despite increases in gasoline prices, according to AAA.

Even with gas prices at their highest since 2014, vehicle road trips remain the most popular option for family vacationers, with 64 percent of those planning a trip saying they expect to hit the roads in 2018.

At the same time, international travel is expected to increase, with the study suggesting that 35 percent of those planning a trip this year are picking an international destination. That’s a 9 percent increase over the past two years.

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“We’ve seen increased demand for international travel overall, and that trend is now starting to appeal to families,” Blasky said.

Other findings from the AAA report suggest:

Families are taking more trips per year. Twenty-seven percent of those planning trips said they expect to take three or more trips over the next year, a 12 percent increase over 2016.

Family travelers are trying new things. Seventy-three percent said they would be headed to a destination where they had never been.

Outdoor destinations are a favorite. Sixty-one percent said they are picking destinations that feature attractions like mountains and beaches, compared to 59 percent who are looking to sight-see and 56 percent just looking to relax.

The AAA report was compiled using a January telephone survey of 1,005 adults in the continental U.S.

Follow David DeMille on Twitter, @SpectrumDeMille.