Volume 514 pages
Master of the Game
About the book
One of Sidney Sheldon’s most popular and bestselling titles, published in ebook format 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.
He could see the shadows of the giant birds all around him, moving in for the kill
English ladies in flounced skirts and ruffled blouses mingled in front of the bazaars set up in the town squares at Braameonstein
not care about me. Van der Merwe raped
Their ages were measured by tribal lore: wars and battles, and births and deaths of great chiefs, comets and blizzards and earthquakes
He felt a flood of terror. He was blind. He could not see them. But he could smell them.
