The Gold Coast

First edition
Author	Nelson DeMille
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Warner Books
Publication date	April 1, 1990
Pages	500
ISBN	978-0446360852
OCLC	20758738
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3554.E472 G6 1990
Followed by	The Gate House

The Gold Coast is a 1990 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille. It introduces DeMille’s recurring character, John Sutter. The Gate House is the sequel to The Gold Coast.

Plot

Welcome to the 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.^[1]