Power Play: A Novel Author: Danielle Steel | Language: English | ISBN:
B00F8F3HIY | Format: PDF
Power Play: A Novel Description
In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable choices they make, what drives them, and how others perceive them. The heady drug of power impacts everything they do.
POWER PLAY Even though Harvard-educated Fiona Carson has proven herself under fire as CEO of National Technology Advancement, a multibillion-dollar high-tech company based in Palo Alto, California, she still has to meet the challenges of her world every day. Devoted single mother, world-class strategist, and tough negotiator, Fiona weighs every move she makes, and reserves any personal time for her children. Isolation and constant pressure are givens for her as a woman in a man’s world.
Miles away in Marin County, Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. At his side is his wife, Liz, the perfect corporate spouse, who has gladly sacrificed her own law career to raise their three children and support Marshall at every step. Smooth, shrewd, and irreproachable, Marshall is a model chief executive, and the power he wields only enhances his charisma and is his drug of choice. And to maintain his position, he harbors secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. His world is one of high risks.
Like many women in her position, Fiona has sacrificed her personal life for her career, while Marshall dances dangerously close to the edge and flirts with scandal every day. Both must face their own demons, and fight off those who are jealous of their success. Their lives as CEOs of major companies come at a high price. And just how high a price are they willing to pay? Who are they willing to sacrifice to stay on top? Those they love, or themselves?
Danielle Steel’s gripping, emotionally layered novel explores the seductive and damaging nature of power. Success and greed, trust and deception, love and loss—all come to a head in this compelling drama of family, careers, infidelity, and the sacrifices some people make to hold on to power . . . or to let it go.
- File Size: 1319 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press (March 11, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00F8F3HIY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Power Play by Danielle Steel is the story of two successful and powerful captains of industry whose lives are poles apart. It is a parallel story of ambition, trust and morality brilliantly told. Fiona Carson and Marshall Weston have a lot in common. They both are ambitious, brilliant, committed, shrewd, hardworking and successful. They both are leaders in their own rights. In a way, both are broken and searching for happiness.
However, one is a woman and the other a man. One is based in Palo Alto and the other is based out of San Francisco. Forty-nine years old Fiona Carson is divorced and the mother of two college-going students. She is committed to her job as a CEO of a tech company as much as she is committed to her children. On the other hand, Marshall Weston leads a double life. One of them involves a mistress who is thirty-year-old, Ashley. She lives with their twin daughters in Malibu. His legal wife Liz lives with their three children in Marin. But a chain of events set off by Marshal Weston's uninhibited lifestyle threatens to reveal and destroy everything.
Power Play by Danielle Steel is a fascinating and mesmerizing look at the lives of two diametrically opposite characters. It is deep, thoughtful and engrossing.
By Khamneithang Vaiphei
TOP 500 REVIEWER
For several years it has rarely been possible to browse a book stand without seeing a novel or two written by Danielle Steel. Yes, she is that successful and for sound reason! The author constantly delivers by turning out one great novel after another. While most of her books feature heroines and are aimed at the gentle-gender genre, many have huge appeal to males as well. This book is a good example. C0omparing two very high achievers against each other, one male the other female, it is classic Steel. This book displays the emotionally-charged, gut-wrenching calls that are necessary to make stemming from the pinnacles of power by two individuals with excessively contrasting profiles. So who wins in the end? Will there even be winners and losers? To answer those questions you will need to read this book. I strongly recommend it.
By Robert Steven Thomas
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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