Schlockmeister Sheldon (Morning, Noon and Night, 1995, etc.)
outdoes himself with an overcharged (albeit eminently readable)
tale about a randy American president and the vengeful newspaper
heiress he done wrong. Leslie Stewart, a brainy and beauteous ad
agency exec, falls hard for a handsome client, attorney Oliver
Russell, whose campaign for the governorship of Kentucky began
foundering when he lost the support of Senator Todd Davis after
two-timing Davis's daughter Jan. The crafty, powerful lawmaker soon
engineers a reconciliation between Jan and Oliver, who
unhesitatingly sacrifices Leslie on the altar of his political
ambition. In short order, the happy pair find themselves the
Bluegrass State's first couple while embittered Leslie heads to
Arizona, where she eventually becomes the trophy wife of wealthy
businessman Henry Chambers. Henry obligingly dies two years later,
freeing Leslie to expand his media holdings in aid of her obsessive
desire to get even with the inconstant Oliver. Years later, as the
Russells are moving into the White House, the vindictive publisher
acquires influential newspaper/television outlets in D.C., which
she uses to rake up old scandals that put her erstwhile lover in a
bad light. Further disclosures of adultery, murder, and other high
crimes have the embattled chief executive on the ropes. In a
startling reversal of fortune, however, the true villain of the
piece is exposed on live TV, leaving Leslie with egg and more on
her lovely face, and allowing Oliver to pursue a semi-noble agenda
calculated to bring peace to the Middle East. A twisty yarn with
few real surprises: Sheldon continues to exploit his special talent
for getting down and dirty with the high and mighty. (Kirkus
Reviews)
HE WANTED POWER,
SHE WANTED REVENGE…
“Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry.” It was a simple enough entry in a young woman’s diary which gave not the slightest portent of the elaborate chain of events that was about to occur.
LESLIE STEWART
beautiful and ambitious PR executive, learns that for some men power is the greatest aphrodisiac.
OLIVER RUSSELL
handsome governor of a small southern state, finds out why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
THE BEST LAID PLANS
is the explosive story of two equally determined people headed on a collision course. Oliver has a strategy to win the White House; Leslie has a scheme to make him wish he’d never been born. They both should have known that even the best laid plans can go dangerously astray – in a deadly dangerous way.
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