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The gold coast
First published 2001 · 828 pages
A sardonic, suspenseful plunge into the collision between fading high-society opulence and ruthless underworld power.
What it feels like
Reading this novel feels like attending an opulent, high-society party where you slowly realize the guest of honor is deeply dangerous. The narrative is driven by a sharply sardonic and often hilarious voice that cuts through the veneer of old money and fading aristocratic legacies. As the atmosphere shifts from staid wealth to seductive peril, the tension steadily ratchets up, pulling the reader into a world laced with sexual passion and sudden violence. It is a propulsive, suspense-filled experience that thrives on the friction between rigid social customs and raw, barbaric power. This book will delight readers who love their thrillers infused with biting wit, complex betrayals, and the intoxicating, destructive allure of the criminal underworld.
- Mood
- opulent
- tense
- seductive
- dangerous
- Tone
- sardonic
- humorous
- cynical
- suspenseful
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- wealth and power · fading aristocratic legacy · seduction and betrayal · clash of social classes
- The writing
- Sharp and sardonic, blending biting social commentary with the tight pacing of a thriller.
- The arc
- Moves from a cynical, staid detachment into a seductive, dangerous entanglement that builds to an explosive climax.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave suspenseful, witty thrillers where high-society manners collide with organized crime.
Content notes
- violence
- sexual content
- organized crime
About the book
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a latter-day barbarian chief and draws Sutter and his regally beautiful wife, Susan, into his violent world. Told from Sutter's sardonic and often hilarious point of view, and laced with sexual passion and suspense, The Gold Coast is Nelson DeMille's captivating story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal.
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