light edge wear to boards and jacket; small jacket tears; Sidney Sheldon's latest novel sweeps from the splendors of the Italian Riviera to the fashion salons of Paris and New York to the elite Back Bay and the social register of Florida's Hobe Sound. When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, is mysteriously drowned off the coast of Corsica, the tragedy sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe.