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Authors: Sidney Sheldon
“Lara…”
“Look, Philip! Look!”
He turned his head. “What?”
“Don’t you see it?”
“See what?”
“Oh, it’s beautiful! A shopping mall over there, in the far corner! In the middle we’ll put up luxury apartment houses.
There’s room enough for four buildings. You see it now, don’t you?”
He was staring at Lara, mesmerized.
She turned to him, her voice charged with excitement. “Now, here’s my plan…”
I owe a debt of gratitude to those who were so generous with their time and expertise:
Larry Russo, who led me through the arcane maze of the biggest gamblers of all—the real estate developers.
The musical mavens who invited me inside their private world—Mona Gollabeck, John Lill, Zubin Mehta, Dudley Moore, André Previn, and the Trustees of the Leonard Bernstein Estate.
I wish also to express my appreciation to the citizens of Glace Bay for their warm hospitality. I hope they will forgive me for the few dramatic licenses I felt it necessary to take.
The expertise in the book belongs to those listed above. Any errors are mine.
The Incomparable Sidney Sheldon
Best known today for his exciting blockbuster novels, Sidney Sheldon is the author of
Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Sky is Falling, Tell Me Your Dreams, The Best Laid Plans, Morning, Noon & Night, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Gods, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror,
and
The Other Side of Midnight.
All have been international bestsellers. His first book,
The Naked Face,
was acclaimed by the
New York Times
as “the best first mystery of the year” and received an Edgar nomination. Most of his novels have become major feature films or TV miniseries, and there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print throughout the world.
Before he became a novelist, Sidney Sheldon had already won a Tony Award for Broadway’s
Redhead
and an Academy Award for
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
He has won several Box Office Awards and has written the screenplays for twenty-five motion pictures, including
Easter Parade
(with Judy Garland) and
Annie Get Your Gun,
both of which won him Screen Writers Guild Awards. In addition, he penned six other Broadway hits and created three long-running television series,
The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie,
which he also produced and for which he received an Emmy nomination, and
Hart to Hart.
A writer who has delighted millions with his award-winning plays, movies, novels, and television shows, Sidney Sheldon reigns as the master storyteller.
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“Sidney Sheldon does it again with a suspenseful, wellcrafted yarn to keep readers turning the pages.…Sheldon’s fast-paced twelfth novel is set against the backdrop of the glamorous world of international business… The ending is totally unexpected.
Stars
is provocative, stunning, romantic, and classic Sheldon.”
—Milwaukee Sentinel
“Fast paced… We get the vengeful heroines that made the author instantly famous.”
—Denver Rocky Mountain News
“A master storyteller.”
—USA Today
“Sheldon hypnotizes the reader as he brings distinctive characters alive. He takes you by the scruff of the neck and defies you to put down the book.”
—Baltimore Sun
“Fast moving…a novel that will keep the reader’s attention from beginning to end.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“Sheldon provides enough twists and turns to satisfy even the most jaded roller-coaster-ride reader.”
—Associated Press
more…
“Sheldon is able to open the door to escapism so cleverly that the threshold is crossed unknowingly. That sort of doorsmanship lifts storytelling to an honorable and worthy calling.”
—Kansas City Star
“Sheldon is a master teller of tales, a wizard of words who casts an uncanny spell over his readers.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“Sheldon is a storyteller for readers who like to be entertained.”
—Pittsburgh Press
“Sheldon still has the knack for creating characters and a story that readers can care about.”
—Detroit Free Press
Are
You Afraid of the Dark?
The Best Laid Plans
Bloodline
The Doomsday Conspiracy
If Tomorrow Comes
Master of the Game
Memories of Midnight
Morning, Noon & Night
The Naked Face
Nothing Lasts Forever
The Other Side of Midnight
Rage of Angels
The Sands of Time
The Sky is Falling
The Stars Shine Down
A Stranger in the Mirror
Tell Me Your Dreams
Windmills of the Gods
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 1992 by The Sidney Sheldon Family Limited Partnership All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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EPub Edition © APRIL 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-00786-5
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