By the author of By the Rivers of Babylon, Word of Honour and The Charm School, this novel deals with the seductiveness of evil. It features a top lawyer and his wife, whose lives are changed forever by their new next-door neighbour Frank Bellarosa, a top Mafia don.
John Sutter Séries
Cette série suit la vie et la carrière de John Sutter, un avocat fiscaliste fictif. Plongez dans le monde complexe du système fiscal américain, où chaque affaire devient une bataille passionnante pour la justice et la survie. Les récits explorent non seulement les affrontements juridiques, mais aussi les sacrifices personnels et les dilemmes moraux auxquels sont confrontés ceux qui naviguent dans le labyrinthe de la loi.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
The Gate House
- 688pages
- 25 heures de lecture
After John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his boat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London.Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, the stretch of Long Island's North Shore 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 gate house 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 re-emerged. Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive 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.An epic masterpiece of storytelling, The Gate House is Nelson DeMille's most compelling novel yet.