His most popular works are a series starring "Derrick Storm"; "A Calm Before The Storm", "Gathering Storm", "Unholy Storm", "Storm's Last Stand", "Storm Season", "Storm Rising", "Storm Warning", and "Storm's Break" and in the pilot episode, Castle attends a party for the release of the final book in the Storm series, "Stormfall", which ends with the surprise death of Derrick Storm, Castle having become bored with the character. He later reads from the novel before a book-signing. Patterson and Cannell both disagree with the decision to kill off Storm, with Cannell commenting that he could have retired or crippled Storm instead, so that he could revisit the character if he changed his mind.