TY - BOOK AU - Sheldon,Sidney TI - Master of the game SN - 0006472613 (pbk.) U1 - 813.54 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Businesswomen KW - Fiction N1 - First published in Great Britain by Collins 1983 N2 - ''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 dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her very conception was an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagrant 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 absent enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and deceit and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition...'' - Back cover ER -