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Master of the game

Kate Blackwell 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 she's also a survivor as indomitable as her father, who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the hard South African soil. 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 game?

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  • "Kate Blackwell 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 she's also a survivor as indomitable as her father, who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the hard South African soil. 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 game?"@en
  • "Kate Blackwell 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 she's also a survivor as indomitable as her father, who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the hard South African soil. 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 game?"
  • "Read by Roddy McDowall."@en
  • "Covering 100 years and extending from the South African diamond mines to America's corporate boardrooms, the novel focuses on the Blackwell family and its ruthless head, Katherine."
  • "Born of her father's vengeance against a murderous South African swindler, Kate Blackwell becomes dynastic head of an international diamond consortium. Transformed by business necessity into a ruthless if diplomatic tyrant, she destroys her artist son, and provokes her grand-daughters' rebellion."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Master of the game"
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