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Master Of The Game
by Sidney Sheldon
Description:
One of Sidney Sheldon’s most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing.
About The Author
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer.
He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (196366), I Dream of Jeannie (196570) and Hart to Hart (197984). He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time.
Skryf Review
“Amazing Reading”
Tisha
WHAT THE HELL DID I READ!!!!!! WILL SOMEONE TELL ME?????? I am speechless,this book is absoultely BRILLIANT!!!!! Too good for words. I have never in my life read such kind of book. I don’t have any idea how in living hell am I gonna review this book because I don’t think I am capable enough or good enough with words to describe what I went through while reading it or what I am feeling after completing it. This book is truely entertaining and it’s a kind of book which you get to read once in 10 years. It’s a saga of a billionare family including it’s 5 generations. The Blackwell family is a hideous f amily who are the richest in the world and is full of dark secrets,murders,thefts. Evey member of this family has it’s own story and every member has it’s own secret to share. The characters were both ambitious and desperate to get what they wanted.Nothing seemed like a limit in this book,nothing seemed wrong,whether it was Jamie using someone for revenge or Kate sleeping with someone for the sake of business or Evie killing someone for money.Every character wanted,needed money,power and control.The way book started with Jamie Mcgregor’s quest in searching diamonds in Africa,the way he overcame every obstacle in his path was just brilliantly written. This book shows the desperate attempts of Kate Blackwell in making Kruger&Brent the topmost company of USA and inorder to do so she did things which are shocking,ugly,mean and certainly rendered me speechless.I was out of mind in my attempt to complete this book.The characters were toooooo awesome,specially the characters of George Mellis and Evie just blew my mind. OMG!!!!!!!! is what I could say at every turn in this book. Normally books have good storyline with pinch of romance,drama and suspense perhaps but this book is just one of it’s kind.A book with everything,it was an overwhelming experience reading this book.
Havisha
I started reading and from the prologue onwards I was completely hooked! I huddled under my duvet, with a torch, unable to put it down and had finished it by Sunday. I was completely mesmorised by the sheer scope of the material; the locations, the exciting adventures of Jamie and Banda and their tentative yet heartfelt friendship. I felt sorry for Margaret, punished because of her father’s mistakes and felt sad when little Jamie died because of his father’s mistakes. I loved the way Kate carried on her father’s legacy and managed to make it in a man’s world. Yet I hated how she manipulated her own son because he wanted to do something different with his life. The only characters I didn’t really like were the twins. Eve, a typical bitch and Alex, a typical doormat. I didn’t feel they were as interesting as their predecessors. Of course the romance scenes were also a little lost on me, at the time, but on the whole I totally loved this book and I heartily recommend it. It started me reading adult books, as ‘Sweet Valley High’ never had the same appeal after this. I’ve read it many times since and it never loses its appeal and the story always feels fresh. The mini-series is also surprisingly faithful to the story, as many are not, so I’d recommend that too once you’ve read the book.
pankti
Kate Blackwell’s empire was spawned by pure ambition and greed, and she oscillates in my mind as proud, self-obsessed woman all in shades of grey! Sidney Shelton’s heroines have always been ruthless, powerful, ambitious and brainy. Kate’s nothing short of this combination. This deadly woman goes around shuffling the cards of her own family members to fuel her naked ambition. Story of passion, manipulation, hardships and betrayal. There are logic holes and no apparent reason why the characters of the plot behave in a irrational way, but the pace with the story traveled kept me hooked. Once readable.
Anupama
This was my first Sidney Sheldon and this won’t be my last.The story is of greed, lust, ambition, manipulation, revenge and big business that threads its way through 4 generations of a family. It starts with Jamie McGregor, who is lured to South Africa by the diamond rush and receives betrayal for his unmitigated hardwork. The lust for revenge makes him build one of the biggest business empires the world will witness in the upcoming years. Sidney is a genius. Such a crafty plot! It had so many twists and countless moments where I actually went – ” Oh my God! What did just happen?!” . The flow of the book is liquid and a 100 years of melodrama just sweep by without befogging you once.
It has a lot of drama, predictable scenes, some over the top characters, plot holes and the story telling isn’t erudite. Oh, this book has plenty of flaws but even all of them stacked up don’t impede this book from being an enthralling page turner.
Ira
Sidney Sheldon’s story of big business, lust, greed, and revenge spans four generations, starting with Jamie McGregor, who leaves Scotland in 1850 to strike it rich in the diamond fields of South Africa. He overcomes many hardships, becomes a millionaire, and starts the Kruger-Brent company. His daughter, Kate, pushes the company until it becomes a world-wide conglomerate, and moves her headquarters to America. To her chagrin, her son Tony wants to be a painter, not a businessman. His twin daughters, Alexandra and Eve, are as different as can be. One of them may be a killer…The book is absolutely riveting, with Jamie’s adventures putting him in a new danger on every page. Kate, the so-called Master of the Game, spends most of her ninety years buying and manipulating everyone in her path, in her relentless search for a worthy corporate successor. As in all of Sheldon’s books, there is action, suspense, romance, and memorable characters that his fans are sure to enjoy.