Customer Rating: 
Summary: great read
Comment: neither my husband nor i could put this book down, it is very long, but still hated for it to end....
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Not just disappointing -- a truly AWFUL book!
Comment: I have enjoyed all of Nelson DeMille's books, with the exception of "Plum Island", but "The Gatehouse" makes "Plum Island" look like fine literature, and "Plum" is just dreadful.
Repetitive, boring, lacking the good-natured humor of "The Gold Coast", "Gatehouse" is complete rip off -- page after page of the same drivel. There are two, maybe three, mildly amusing bon mots in the 600+ page tome, but that's it, and the ending is beyond appalling. (Yes, I read on until the end, hoping the story would improve. It didn't).
DeMille should be ashamed of himself. This garbage book is an insult to readers in general, but particularly to his fans. Save your money; it's not worth the paper it's printed on.
Customer Rating: Summary: Slow starter but good
Comment: Once you got through the lengthy review of The Gold Coast, it wasn't a bad book. All the twists and turns you expect from DeMille.
Customer Rating: Summary: What a drag..
Comment: I love Nelson DeMille - or at least I did onde upon a time. This book seemed more like a Gold Coast wanna be, or perhaps simply a deadline driven book. The constant references to the "well 10 years ago..." UGH
The premise itself was ridiculous, I kept wondering what the heck is this about? Then as the story progressed (I use that term liberally) why would a mafia Don's son wait 10 years to try to kill the woman that shot his father?
I completely agree with others that the John Sutter character was - like so much of today's humor - driven by pure sarcasm, completely void of wit. This seems too easy a path for an author with DeMille's skill to take.
I finished the book, but was so unhappy with it, I won't even pass it on to friends. Nelson, you can do better, much better. KP
Customer Rating: Summary: A bad re-hash of The Gold Coast
Comment: Instead of wasting any time on The Gate House, just read The Gold Coast again. All Demille does in the new book is re-tell and re-tell and re-tell the events of the previous book. Susan (the wife) is even more annoying, but this time she is also boring. There is no plot, just a boring bad guy who doesn't even do anything until the last few pages, and that must have been pasted in by an exasperated junior editor. This book was a huge huge disappointment from an author who has previously written several gripping tales.
