Bloodline

Bloodline
Sidney Sheldon

One of Sidney Sheldon’s most popular and bestselling titles, now available as an ebook.The daughter of a rich and powerful father, Elizabeth Roffe is young, beautiful – and sole heir to a billion dollar fortune.Then tragedy strikes. Her father is killed in a freak accident and Elizabeth must take command of his mighty global empire, the pharmaceutical company Roffe and Sons. It makes Elizabeth the richest girl in the world. But someone, somewhere, is determined that she must die.From the backstreets of Istanbul to the upmarket offices of New York, Bloodline is a hypnotic tale of love and ambition, danger, intrigue and death.

SIDNEY SHELDON

BLOODLINE

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First published in Great Britain by Collins 1978

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Source ISBN: 9780006175018

Ebook Edition © APRIL 2012 ISBN 9780007380893

Version: 2014-12-10

DEDICATION (#ulink_2ebd9353-90fc-5dd2-99a5-ca1b6cc0e489)

For Natalie with love

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_433c0d71-b173-5f46-91b9-fcfa97753ed1)

The physician will carefullyprepare a mixture of crocodiledung, lizard flesh, bats’ bloodand camels’ spit …

from a papyrus listing

811 prescriptions used

by the Egyptians in

1550 BC

CONTENTS

Title Page (#u8667829e-53cf-5f94-89bb-9798f859aa43)

Copyright (#u39e208af-6083-505e-acc1-9fd5894c58e8)

Dedication (#ua7ea9b0b-ba62-5103-965d-118d7e8c49d4)

Epigraph (#u346e4904-95ec-53e8-ab87-d4c0c668812b)

PART ONE (#u03632ed8-fda7-58ca-a429-2227d5f36eeb)

CHAPTER ONE (#ua3d1d55e-3dec-56cc-8ca0-d9772367eda6)

CHAPTER TWO (#u4e2aa969-ca9f-56f6-ad49-e8dabb28af75)

CHAPTER THREE (#ub6577673-1e02-5b6c-938d-9cb553d215eb)

CHAPTER FOUR (#u4c68d2da-e167-5708-9ea2-05e6ed4f1e6c)

CHAPTER FIVE (#u83d70b86-3f64-55e2-a407-e7bd8ecb553a)

CHAPTER SIX (#u6b001765-4e0b-533e-92f7-482d6a6d7228)

CHAPTER SEVEN (#u71ef9f99-8bfb-56af-ab3f-0f3ce22f7ed5)

CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

PART TWO (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)