Master of the game - Sidney Sheldon

If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game

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 crooked Afrikaner merchant. Her very conception was 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 absent enemies.. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and deceit and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition...