The Gate House, Nelson DeMille
The Gate House, Nelson DeMille
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The Gate House

Author: Nelson DeMille

Narrator: Christian Rummel

Abridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/28/2008


Synopsis

#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.

About Nelson DeMille

Born in New York City, author Nelson Richard DeMille moved with his parents out to Long Island, where his journey to becoming an accomplished author all began. He graduated from Elmont Memorial High School, and attended three years at Hofstra University. In 1966-69 he was a commissioned officer........Lieutenant in the United States Army. He was an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, being decorated with the Air Medal, Bronze Star, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

After his tour in Vietnam, he returned to Hofstra University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science and History. His first major novel, By the Rivers of Babylon, was published in 1978, and is still in print today. After that first novel, he has had numerous others. A few of them are Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, and many others. DeMille has received several literary awards, with being selected as Thriller Master of the Year in 2015. He holds three Honorary Doctorates from Hofstra University, Long Island University, and Dowling College.

DeMille has three children, and he and his wife reside in Garden City, New York.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow 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.

Goodreads review by Nette on November 15, 2008

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'......more

Goodreads review by Karl on March 09, 2021

My mistake, thinking this would be a thriller, the genre DeMille is most known for. It isn't; as a result, I gave up after a hundred pages or so. DeMille's voice is engaging, his characters are substantial, and this book opens with a cast that could lead anywhere: a successful lawyer has returned to......more

Goodreads review by Henry on October 11, 2008

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 House OK, so after your fabulously wealthy Gold Coast society wife murdered her Mafia-boss lover ten years ago, you divorced her and sailed aroun......more

Goodreads review by Linda on November 25, 2008

First off, I'd like to know who wrote the official goodreads description of this book - a sequel to the CLASSIC novel The Gold Coast?? This English major might take exception to that very presumptuous comment. I've been a big DeMille fan since the 80's, greatly appreciating his sarcasm, wit, and plot......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on January 19, 2009

It's interesting to learn what happened to John & Susan Sutter after The Gold Coast, but the novel drags on far too long with too little pay-off. John spends several hundred pages rehashing the events of The Gold Coast and worrying about what Anthony Bellarosa is going to do. It gets old, and while......more


Quotes

"Narrator Christian Rummel expertly characterizes Susan, the wealthy ex-wife of tax attorney John Sutter, who saunters back into his life following a torrid affair and her murder of powerful Mafia boss Frank Bellarosa. Rummel is most enjoyable affecting the local 'lockjaw' pronunciations as the story mixes in 'criminal' Italian accents just one generation removed from 'deese' and 'dose.' Listening to this witty, entertaining novel, fans of DeMille will be hooked..."—AudioFile