Sidney Sheldon is a superb author capable of fabricating plots as intricate as a spider's web. Master of the Game entices the reader, keeping them eagerly rolling their eyeballs over word after word, flipping page after page into the wee hours of the morning. The book is a tale of a young Scottish teenager who ventures down to South Africa in 1883, and wrenches from the barren earth a fortune in diamonds. He is swindled by …showed first 75 words of 759 total…

…showed last 75 words of 759 total…was annoying, it is the point that Sheldon was trying to stress. He wanted to show how cruel and manipulative Kate could be. I recommend this book highly, but not for school reading. A couple of parts toward the end are rather sexually graphic and although do not dominate the plot are not appropriate for reading in school. However, for anyone looking for a book full of adventure and reality, this is the perfect one.