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| Original Title: | The Gate House |
| ISBN: | 0446533424 (ISBN13: 9780446533423) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | John Sutter #2 |
| Characters: | Susan Sutter, Mr. Frank Bellarosa, John Whitman Sutter, William Stanhope, Mrs. Ethel Hope Allard, Mr. Felix Mancuso, Carolyn Sutter, Elizabeth Allard Corbet, Edward Sutter, Mr. Amir Nasim, Mr. Anthony Bellarosa, Anna Bellarosa, Harriet Sutter |
Nelson DeMille
Hardcover | Pages: 677 pages Rating: 3.75 | 16031 Users | 1329 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Gate House (John Sutter #2) |
| Author | : | Nelson DeMille |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 677 pages |
| Published | : | October 28th 2008 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Crime. Audiobook |
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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.Rating Out Of Books The Gate House (John Sutter #2)
Ratings: 3.75 From 16031 Users | 1329 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books The Gate House (John Sutter #2)
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I cannot believe that one of my favorite authors wrote such a piece of trash. So bad, I'm giving up on it not even halfway through. DeMille spends the first 3rd of the book making CONSTANT references to its prequel - Gold Coast(if I wanted to reread this, I would have), then the main character becomes an absolute moron and agrees to remarry the woman (from Gold Coast) who cheated on him and then murdered her mafia goon "lover". The ex-wife is vain, unrepentent, harassing,I listened to the audio version of The Gate House. After listening to the Nelson DeMille interview at the end of the book, I was glad I chose to listen to the book. The audio version opened up the imagery of the book. Even Mr. DeMille mentioned that aspect with the audio version in his interview. As other reviews of The Gate House have mentioned, I too felt this was not the best book by Mr. DeMille. I could not related to this book, so therefore I could not fully get me teeth into this book. The
This book is very, very long and NOTHING HAPPENS until the last 30 pages. Our hero drives around the Gold Coast, reminisces about events that happened in another book ("The Gold Coast'), has sex with his ex-wife an unlikely number of times (I have one word for you, Mr. DeMille: cystitis; wait, here's another one: chafing), and drinks. Also, the author has a weird quirk when he describes people talking. Hs dialog looks like this:"Hello," I informed my ex-wife as she removed the clothes from her
Maybe it's me, but I don't think I will finish this book. I was so excited to have a new DeMille to read, but the first 150 pages are almost painful. The writing is flat and repetitious. His John Whitman Sutter tries too hard to be funny. And every other thought in his head is "my wife killed her lover, a Mafia don". I'm bored and disappointed.
What I didn't want at the end of the day were any old regrets. What I really needed now were some new regrets. -- John Sutter, in Nelson DeMille's The Gate HouseOK, so after your fabulously wealthy Gold Coast society wife murdered her Mafia-boss lover ten years ago, you divorced her and sailed around the world for three years before you settled down in London, and now that you're back in the U.S. you're staying in the gatehouse of your ex-wife's ancestral estate, only to find that she's moved in
Possible spoiler if you are really sensitive about knowing anything about the book.This book was so entertaining! I listened to parts and read parts and loved it. The story was a bit far fetched and unbelievable but it was just so much fun. I laughed out loud at many parts. The best thing about Nelson Demille is his main characters, John Sutter in this book and John Cory in others. They are both similar in their wit and sarcasm. I think the book would be enjoyable even if you didn't read "The
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