The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon Leslie Stewart(IQ 170) has been dumped by the man of her dreams for the daughter of the most powerful man in the US of A. She vows revenge. To get revenge, she amasses a powerful media network, and sets about ruining the man who has now become the president. Meanwhile, it appears that the president may be responsible for the deaths of three women who OD'd on ecstasy. Read and see whose best laid plans are reduced to shambles.
Sheldon's style is charming, although not terribly realistic. He likes to portray smart women who get ahead by manipulating the idiot men around them, and he likes to have big conspiracies that ultimately fail, and little people who make it. It does bother me that he gives Leslie Stewart here an IQ of 170, because while that is high, it doesn't lead to her behavior. Also, some of the business strategies she uses are illegal, and have been ever since monopolizing strategies brought on the Great Depresion.
Happy reading.
