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Название книги: The Gate House
Автор(ы): Nelson Demille
Жанр: Триллер
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The second book in the John Sutter series
This book is for James Nelson DeMille, a new chapter in my life.
PROLOGUE
How beauteous is this garden; where the flowers of the earth vie with the stars of heaven.What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water?Nothing but the moon in her fulness, shining in the midst of an unclouded sky!– Inscription on a wall of Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain From Washington Irving, The AlhambraIt is a warm summer evening, and by the light of a full white moon, I, John Whitman Sutter, am watching my wife, Susan Stanhope Sutter, as she rides her horse Zanzibar across the quiet acres of Stanhope Hall, her ancestral estate.The rising moon is eerily bright, and it illuminates the landscape with an unearthly glow, which transforms all color into silvery shades of blue and white.Susan passes through a line of tall pines and enters a neighboring estate called Alhambra, and I wonder why she has trespassed on this property, and I hope she has gotten permissi