The Gate House

By: Nelson DeMille

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 22 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

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, 10 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, which had been the family home of his ex-wife, Susan Stanhope Sutter, 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, old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal.

In The Gate House, a book that is both a sequel to The Gold Coast as well as a suspenseful stand-alone novel, acclaimed author Nelson DeMille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore - a place where past, present, and future collide with often unexpected results.

©2008 Nelson Demille (P)2008 Nelson Demille

Mixed thoughts about it

Rehashed too much of The Gold Coast, otherwise this sequel was a satisfying conclusion to it.

PERFECT SEQUEL...

Every unexplained detail... Character development, motivations,totally relatable good guys and bad guys. Great visual tension. I loved it. A++ narration. Totally satisfying... Like a fat cheeseburger with fries and a coke...!!! Thank you Mr. DeMille.

Patty Cake Edworthy Klein

you'll love this book I've read it from cover to cover like 15 years ago I learned new things all over again I just wish I would have watched or listen to the golden coast again first to refresh my memory and just because if you watch in order just so much better or listen i'm sorry I keep saying watching anyway great great listen great for my long ride to work

Great ending.

Need to read the book Gold Coast first to really get the background Back 25% if no is great

DeMille writes another excellent book!

The Gate House is the sequel to The Gold Coast. The Gold Coast has a huge fan base and the readers wanted more. DeMille delivers a great sequel (18 years after the publication of The Gold Coast).

Do not read this book before you have read The Gold Coast. It is not good as a stand-alone novel. I believe that the current neutral CUSTOMER RATING is because the book was either read out of sequence, or the reader expected that the genre was like most of DeMille's other books, which are fast pace espionage/thrillers.

The Gate House story is set 10 years after The Gold Coast and just after 9/11 (fall of New York's Twin Towers). The main character John Sutter, is still the witty and sarcastic wiseass with big brass balls. Lots of laughs and erotic sex scenes.

As a sequel which picks up 10 years later, DeMille writes more dramatic fiction to build the lives of the characters, so reasonably, the pace of the book is not always a high tension thriller. That said, I could not put this book down.

The reader Christian Rummel voice and style was a great choice for both these books. I especially liked his women's society voices as well as John Sutter the WASP lawyer.

Although I am a big fan of the narrator Scott Brick (who reads many of DeMille's Books) his style and voice would not be suited to these two books.

Brilliant Conclusion to Gold Coast

Many have complained the book is too long and contains rhetoric not useful to the story. They claim to have been bored.

I was sorry the book ended. It is a full and complete review of the pertinent aspects of Gold Coast. It reviews and expands our understanding of all the characters as well as the Gold Coast mentality.

I feel this book is better constructed and nuanced than Gold Coast. This is a terrific listen and the narrator is in a class by himself.

Jim Droste

Great Sequel!!

Do listen to Gold coast first. DeMille himself considered it his best work. Like most DeMille books it's nothing like any other. I couldn't put either book down!

I enjoyed other DeMille books more.

What made the experience of listening to The Gate House the most enjoyable?

Narrator was fantastic.

If you’ve listened to books by Nelson DeMille before, how does this one compare?

There seems to be a lot of verbosity and fluff in this one. It could have been shorter and I could now be half way through another DeMille book.

Which scene was your favorite?

Don't want to give away anything.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Get the book.

If you like the Gold Coast

You will like this one too. John, Susan, and a host of other characters pick up where Gold Coast left off. John is his usual scarastic self, and Frank's offspring add some interest. You don't have to have read the first book to enjoy the second. Makes you want to visit Long Island.

Got caught up with the Sutters

I'm a Nelson DeMille fan. At about 1/3 the way through I thought - where is this book going? No real plot - only reminiscing about the past. But I got caught up in the story and laughed out loud in many places. I could really relate to John Sutter and his wacky friends and family. Looking forward to the next DeMille creation.