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The Gate House

by Nelson DeMille

Series: John Sutter (2)

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I found it entertaining and well-written; author has a really good feel for writing dialogue. Story involves the super-rich, a smart-mouthed lawyer; his spoiled and unfaithful wife and the Mafia. Although I enjoyed book, it was way too long and repetitious, had an iffy ending and author seemed obsessed with smutty sex that precludes me from recommending it to anyone. By the end I was rooting for the Mafia ( )
  repb | Oct 26, 2009 |
This is the most repetitive book I've ever read. Not only does it repeat the entire plot of The Gold Coast, but every single point is made over and over again. And over and over and over. To top it all off, the writing is beyond trite. I'm sure it's very difficult to edit a book by such a prominent author, but if ever a book needed a rigorous editing, this book is it. And unfortunately, no matter how interested I might have been in finding out what happened to the characters of The Gold Coast (admittedly, not very much), the lack of editing, not to mention the ridiculously convenient ending, made me care even less. ( )
  mzonderm | Aug 11, 2009 |
John Sutter returns from London where he went after his former wife, Susan, killed her Mafia don lover, Frank Bellarosa.
Sutter has returned to the Gold Coast of Long Island for the death and imminent funeral of a family servant.
One day, Anthony Bellarosa shows up at Sutter's door. He offers Sutter a job but is uncouth and Sutter attempts to avoid him. Then he begins asking Sutter about how could his father have lost his home to taxes with Sutter as his attorney. From some of Bellarosa's comments about Susan, Sutter believes she may be in danger and he warns her but Susan disregards his concern. With seeing one another again, Susan and Sutter take up their romance and decide to remarry. This enrages Bellarosa and he tells Sutter that he might not be immune from fallout.
Many of DeMille's novels have been first rate. I'm particularly fond of "The Charm School," "Plum Island," and "Lion's Gate." However this novel is below my expectations. Pages upon pages with nothing happening. Sutter has wit and his dialogue is clever but the story is a bore. It was a struggle to finish this massive novel and I would not recommend it. ( )
  mikedraper | Jun 28, 2009 |
Excellent reading. Hard to put down.
  rae2008 | Jun 10, 2009 |
Not one of DeMille's best. I was very disappointed. It is actually much ado about nothing. ( )
  jed46 | May 21, 2009 |
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How beauteous is this garden; where the flowers of the earth vie with the stars of heaven. What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water? Nothing but the moon in her fulness, shining in the midst of an unclouded sky! -Inscription on a wall of Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain From Washington Irving, The Alhambra
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This book is for James Nelson DeMille, a new chapter in my life.
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It is a warm summer evening, and by the light of a full white moon, I, John Whitman Sutter, am watching my wife, Susan Stanhope Sutter, as she rides her horse Zanzibar across the quite acres of Stanhope Hall, her ancestral estate.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446533424, Hardcover)

#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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