The Gate House
by Nelson DeMille
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Author: Nelson DeMilleEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN: 0446533424
Number of pages: 688
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Thank god I bought the audio version with a top notch narrator
Summary: 3 Stars
Nelson is like the little girl with the curl - when he's good, he's very, very good but when he is bad he is horrid.
If I were "reading" this book I'd have given up about a third of the way in. Turns out I bought it on audio and the narrator was as good as they get. He kept the plot moving along even when for several hundred pages it was only listening to the wife whine, want sex, and dismiss the urgency of the situation that she (yes, she) put the couple in. Turns out she came from money, had an adulterous affair with a mafia king pin and then killed him. "Boo Hoo - why did my husband sail off on a yacht around the world and not stay with me? After all, my lover is dead now". Come on, Nelson, are you auditioning to write for a Romance Publishing House?
Our main character, John Sutter, would have been comfortable in any DeMille novel. DeMille writes the best "snappy patter" out there - on a par with Aaron Sorkin. His male characters are lovable rogues who talk the talk of a Mickey Spillane tough guy with the humor of George Carlin.
This whole book circles around the rich and snooty section of Long Island called the Gold Coast - but - in homage to 911 maybe, Demille has thrown in an Iranian on the lam from his home country. This guy is the landlord and is "in and out" of the story in a few sentences. Now if Nelson had followed this theme we may have had a good story. His international espionage stories are some of his best.
The best I can say is that The Gate House is not horrible.....bg
Summary of The Gate House
#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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