Master of the Game
Ratings27
Average rating3.6
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Ratings27
Average rating3.6
**One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles. 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 Afrikaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. **At the extravagant 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.*--goodreads***
Master of the Game is a novel by Sidney Sheldon, first published in hardback format in 1982. Spanning four generations in the lives of the fictional McGregor/Blackwell family, the critically acclaimed novel spent four weeks at number one on the New York Times Best Seller List, and was later adapted into a 1984 television miniseries.***--Ahmad Sharabiani (goodreads reviewer)***
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Sidney Sheldon's books served as my gateway into an adult world — teeming with power, money, ambition, betrayal, revenge, madness, greed, lust — themes which simultaneously captivated and repelled me. Despite their inclusion for cheap thrills, they formed the cornerstone of page-turning stories.
Master of the Game, an epic saga spanning three generations, remains etched in my mind. Its cartoonishly evil characters and their web of corruption have stayed with me. Though flawed, it embodies the essence of what a thriller should be, culminating in a conclusion where no one emerges unscathed.
Sheldon's exploration of success's price and the corrupting nature of power was simplistic enough to spark introspection in my teenage self. Master of the Game was a formative reading experience, so whenever someone asks me for a thriller recommendation, it is the first book that springs to mind as its ability to linger in my memory, with every horrifying detail still vivid, sets it apart from the rest.
The ending was a letdown. Kate promised to handle things herself, but the story ended abruptly without any follow-through.
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12 primary books13 released booksThe Game is a 13-book series with 12 primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Sidney Sheldon, Yannis Karatsioris, and 2 others.
