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Title: Fascinating, engrossing, intriguing. A great read!
Review: The Gold Coast beats both Plum Island and The General's Daughter, which is saying something. This is an earlier effort, and the overt wit of the later novels is present in more muted form as an occasional wry observation or subtle irony. (It's as if DeMille wrote better when he wasn't trying to deliver a punchline in every paragraph.) The plot chronicles the subornation of a respectable Wall Street lawyer into the Bellarosa crime family, but the story is not a tragedy, just plain fascinating reading. This one is to be recommended.
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