David tries to stop her, but when he enlists and goes overseas, she begins production anyway. World War I breaks out and Kate moves into the arms industry.
Kate ruthlessly manipulates David into breaking his engagement and marrying her instead. However, when Kate returns from business school, she finds David engaged to a woman who wants him to take over her own family’s company. She falls in love with David Blackwell-20 years her senior-and resolves that she will take over the company after Margaret’s death. Her feeling of helplessness makes her resolve that in the future, she will be powerful. Once she is pregnant, Jamie reveals his identity and Margaret’s secret at once, humiliating van der Merwe in front of his pious neighbors.ĭuring the Boer War, young Kate is kidnapped. Next, Jamie-by now unrecognizable-returns to Klipdrift, to seduce van der Merwe’s daughter, Margaret. First, they steal a huge haul of diamonds in a risky heist. Together they plot revenge against their mutual enemy. However, Van der Merwe’s African servant Banda saves his life. On arrival, he is swindled out of his savings and left to die by local merchant Salomon van der Merwe. Adventurer Jamie McGregor leaves his native Scotland to seek his fortune in Klipdrift, South Africa, where diamonds have been discovered. The novel moves back in time to the 1860s. The aging Kate has a vision of her personal dead: They invite her to join them, but she refuses, on the ground that she still hasn’t found an heir to preserve her legacy. The novel opens on the 90th birthday party of Kate Blackwell, the matriarch of her wealthy family and owner of the vast business empire of Kruger-Brent International. After Sheldon’s death, his publisher commissioned a sequel, entitled Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game, written by Tilly Bagshawe.
Master of the Game spent four weeks in the number one spot on the New York Times Best Seller List and was adapted for television in 1984. Master of the Game (1982), a thriller by American writer and television producer Sidney Sheldon, follows Kate Blackwell as she inherits the business founded by her father, Jamie McGregor, turns it into a multinational empire, and struggles to choose one of her children as her heir.
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