Product Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE, acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected results.
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 Not just disappointing -- a truly AWFUL book! ( minnie96 )
I have enjoyed all of Nelson DeMille's books, with the exception of "Plum Island", but "The Gatehouse" makes "Plum Island" look like fine literature, and "Plum" is just dreadful.
Repetitive, boring, lacking the good-natured humor of "The Gold Coast", "Gatehouse" is complete rip off -- page after page of the same drivel. There are two, maybe three, mildly amusing bon mots in the 600+ page tome, but that's it, and the ending is beyond appalling. (Yes, I read on until the end, hoping the story would improve. It didn't).
DeMille should be ashamed of himself. This garbage book is an insult to readers in general, but particularly to his fans. Save your money; it's not worth the paper it's printed on.
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 Slow starter but good ( shereegibson )
Once you got through the lengthy review of The Gold Coast, it wasn't a bad book. All the twists and turns you expect from DeMille.
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What a drag.. ( kpeterson70 )
I love Nelson DeMille - or at least I did onde upon a time. This book seemed more like a Gold Coast wanna be, or perhaps simply a deadline driven book. The constant references to the "well 10 years ago..." UGH
The premise itself was ridiculous, I kept wondering what the heck is this about? Then as the story progressed (I use that term liberally) why would a mafia Don's son wait 10 years to try to kill the woman that shot his father?
I completely agree with others that the John Sutter character was - like so much of today's humor - driven by pure sarcasm, completely void of wit. This seems too easy a path for an author with DeMille's skill to take.
I finished the book, but was so unhappy with it, I won't even pass it on to friends. Nelson, you can do better, much better. KP
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A bad re-hash of The Gold Coast
Instead of wasting any time on The Gate House, just read The Gold Coast again. All Demille does in the new book is re-tell and re-tell and re-tell the events of the previous book. Susan (the wife) is even more annoying, but this time she is also boring. There is no plot, just a boring bad guy who doesn't even do anything until the last few pages, and that must have been pasted in by an exasperated junior editor. This book was a huge huge disappointment from an author who has previously written several gripping tales.
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 This man needs an editor
One thought... about 250 less pages.
One more... where's the plot?
I normally enjoy DeMille's books but I got about 1/2
way through this one and gave up. At that point there
was very little plot development, just ENDLESS descriptions
of every scene.
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