About this title: The Gold Coast runs along the North Shore of Long Island, New York, where wealth and power go hand in hand with greed and corruption. When lawyer John Sutter meets crime boss Frank Bellarosa, he is drawn into a world of organized crime, murder, and betrayal.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780446360852ISBN:0446360856
Description: Good. Back/ Front cover is folded. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780586070161ISBN:0586070168
Description: Good. 0586070168 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m...02610600 _ read more
"An old-family, very WASP lawyer lives in the guest house of his wife's ancestral estate on the Gold Coast of Long Island, bored but proper until a Mafia don moves into the mansion next door. I've liked some DeMille books in the past and read this one because it is the prequel to the recently released The Gate House. However, I didn't like this one as much. The main character, John Sutter, really was not very likable and his sarcasm and "wit" got old fast. Too long for the story (700 pages), but still a fairly interesting light read, but I don't know if I'll read the Gate House now. DeMille thinks this book is his masterpiece but I'm afraid I have to disagree."
"This is a very subtle book. Told in the first person, DeMille's protagonist draws conclusions from what looks at first like very little evidence, but explanations later in the book always had me nodding my head and agreeing that it all makes perfect sense when you put it that way. In the hands of a less-skilled author, I would have found this very technique very annoying, but DeMille made it all work very well. I was very impressed.
Add to that overall good writing, including a narrator who tells his story in a very likable chatty voice (even if said narrator isn't himself always a likable character), a really interesting take on the Mafia, and a story that has some interesting twists and turns, and it all comes out to quite a good book."
"Way too long, didn't get to the point, redundant, seemed dated (didn't stand the test of time). John could be very witty but grew tiresome. Susan Really?? She was absurd. John's mid life crisis might explain getting involved with a mobster but the path he took in the face of tax evasion charges was out of character and didn't seem a plausible choice. Lot of elements in the story that you spend a lot of time reading about and they never get tied back into the story, just left hanging there as threads. Rarely do I read ahead in a book but I found myself with very little patience for this story and would skip pages on several occasions. I could never endure reading the Gate House but did find myself perversely interested in whether John is stupid enough to get back together with Susan."
"This has been my favorite book for the past 15 years. I read it every couple of years when I can't find anything else to read.
The story is interesting enough in itself, but what makes this my favorite is the way our hero thinks (witty and sarcastic) and occassionally speaks, almost to the detriment of his life on occassion. Like describing a Mafia don's servant: "...a large Homo sapiens appeared in my headbeams. I stopped, and the figured moved toward my window, his knuckles dragging along the ground...silk shirt open to his navel, which revealed so much hair that I could see why he coudn't button it.""
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