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Fiction · 1983 · R

Master of the Game

by Sidney Sheldon

Kate Blackwell built an empire. She would sacrifice everything to keep it—including everyone she loved.

WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil -- her winnings in life. Is she the... MASTER OF THE GA

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Violence

A lot

Multiple murders, suicide, and the violence of ruthless power across generations

Language

Some

Adult language throughout; period-appropriate

Sexual Content

A lot

Explicit sexual relationships and seduction as power plays; multiple storylines with adult content

Substance Use

Some

Moderate drinking across the wealthy social settings of multiple eras

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Ambition and its psychological cost across four generations; the devastation of sacrificing love for power

What this book is about

From a South African diamond mine in the 1880s to the corporate boardrooms of New York a century later, Sidney Sheldon's dynastic saga follows the Blackwell family through four generations of ambition, betrayal, and ruthless power. A blockbuster in the classic mold: sex, violence, glamour, and melodrama at maximum volume.

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Explicit sexual content throughout

Violence including murder across multiple storylines

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