The Best Laid Plans

Sidney Sheldon returns with a tale of two equally determined people headed on a collision course.

One the governor of a small southern state, Oliver Russell is a man with a strategy to win the White House. The other is the beautiful and ambitious Leslie Stewart, a woman intent on seeing him lose everything.

Jilted days before their wedding when Oliver abandons her for political advantage, she channels her grief into cold vengeance. From the ashes of that betrayal, she resolves that no man will ever hurt her again.

Amassing a formidable communications syndicate, she buys newspapers and television stations across the nation to build the ultimate weapon. Behind the polished speeches, Oliver never imagines how swiftly an old betrayal can resurface—shattering his climb to the Oval Office.

Yet every triumph on the national stage only deepens his peril, leaving him exposed to the ultimate reckoning. Soon they will both discover that even the best laid plans can go dangerously astray--with deadly consequences.
Political Intrigue: Behind the high-stakes push for a Middle Eastern peace accord, Senator Todd Davis and Capitol insiders maneuver behind the scenes to control the Oval Office.Media Empire: Armed with the influence of the Washington Tribune and a sprawling broadcast network, Leslie turns front-page investigations into a personal weapon to dismantle the man who betrayed her.Race Against Time: When a series of fatal overdoses and suspicious jailhouse deaths points to the nation’s highest offices, television correspondent Dana Evans risks her life to broadcast the truth before the cover-up turns deadly.Also by This Author: Sidney Sheldon's Chasing Tomorrow, Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory and Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark.