Starý Rím, mesto slávy postavené na brehu rieky neresti, sa hemží ambicióznymi a neľútostnými mužmi. Nik z nich sa však nevyrovná Marcovi Cicerovi. Mladý postupujúci právnik, brzdený manželkou-dračicou, sa rozhodne staviť všetko na jedinú kartu v najdramatickejšom zákulisnom boji všetkých čias. Ak vyhrá, získa neobmedzenú moc nad Rímom. Ak prehrá, je navždy stratený.
Ďalší z prípadov súdnej lekárky Kay Scarpettovej sa začína pátraním po viacnásobnom vrahovi, ktorý svojím obetiam odtína končatiny. Postup pri vražde poslednej obete sa však odlišuje od predchádzajúcich a tak Kay pochopí, že za hľadaným páchateľom sa ukrýva niekto iný, ešte nebezpečnejší. Záhadný výsyp na mŕtvole totiž vedci identifikujú ako mutáciu vírusu pravých kiahní, choroby, ktorá sa na Zemi už nevyskytuje.
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island. Five years later, the crash has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But for John Corey and his wife Kate Mayfield, both members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force, the case is not closed.
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.