Master Of The Game. Review on Master Of The Game - Sidney Sheldon

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.

This  is a saga of a millionaire family spanning five generations during the  XX century from the beginning of times in South Africa where a recent  arrived Scottish penny less cunning and ambitious immigrant, Jamie  Blackwell pushed his luck to make the beginning of a huge fortune in the  diamond business, all the way to the end of the century where his  daughter Kate almost ninety years old get desperate to find her  successor to run the family now multi million dollar conglomerate. All  humans passions and emotions are found in this story, greed, fear, lust,  love, jealousy, sex, life and death. Seldon is a great storyteller and  the plot progresses at a very fast pace. I can only criticize that his  style is to make some events very contrived for the sake of the story  and to fit them snugly in the chapters.

Also, I see that the author help  his characters too much resorting to a last ace under "his" sleeve, to  overcome miraculously, extremely difficult situations. On the other hand  ingenious twists and turns galore. Overall, the goal is to entertain  readers and for that purpose Master of the Game is a great job.