The Gate House by Nelson DeMille Paperback Book

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Author: Nelson DeMille

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: Nov 2009

Genre: Fiction - Suspense

Retail Price: $19.99

Pages: 800

Synopsis

WITH NEARLY 50 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE, NELSON DEMILLE IS "A TRUE MASTER." - DAN BROWN

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille's utterly satisfying follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.

After John Sutter's aristocratic wife Susan killed Frank Bellarosa, her Mafia don lover, John divorced Susan 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 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 his ex-wife Susan, who has also returned to Long Island.

Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged. Though Frank Bellarosa 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. Meanwhile, John and Susan's mutual attraction surfaces and old passions reignite, as John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Gold Coast, DeMille seamlessly brings the past, present, and future together for a thrilling conclusion.

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BookLender review by Laurie on 2015-10-17 23:29:54

I stuck it out to the bitter end, and truthfully the last 3 CDs were vastly more entertaining that the previous 16. I seriously considered sending back the entire long-winded, slow-moving, yawningly pedantic recap of The Gold Coast around about CD 7 or 8, but I didnt have another book to listen to, so I kept listening. Yeah, it was funny in places. But the actual meat of the story could have been told in a quarter of this lengthy discourse on the Long Island moneyed uppercrust. DeMille is a 20th-century Jane Austen, and this book is a classic book of manners, a quaint and sometimes vastly pedantic portrait of a particular societys culture and habits. If only DeMille had known when to stop prosing and get on with the plot.