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CHANCES – the top bestseller of 1982 – was the saga of Gino Santangelo, the tough, street-wise kid who became one of America’s most wealthy, influential and powerful men. In LUCKY, the story of his wildly beautiful daughter, the sizzling Santangelo legend continues. Moving from Las Vegas to New York, Beverley Hills to a private Greek island, these passionate seekers travel in the fastest lane of all. Lucky Santangelo is Gino’s business partner and best friend. With sex and the rich fruits of crime her aphrodisiacs, Lucky requires – needs – just as much power as her father. And power, for Lucky, means the ability to rule an empire, or the heart of a man, on her terms. Only one man is her equal – Gino. But when he meets sophisticated Beverly Hills widow Susan Martino, he has no time for Lucky or his business anymore. Rejected and alone, Lucky seeks solace with a man who is even more powerful than Gino, billionaire Greek shipowner, Dimitri Stanislopoulos. Olympia Stanislopoulos is Dimitri’s daughter, and one of the world’s richest women. Yet neither uncountable wealth nor three husbands have succeeded in satisfying her. Once best friends, she and Lucky are now deadly rivals – and not just over the vast Stanislopoulos fortune. Lennie Golden is the charismatic stand-up comedian whose first night appearance at Lucky’s Hotel Magiriano – the fabulously successful Las Vagas casino she built during her father’s FBI-imposed tax exile – ignites a passion between them that makes a bid for her gambler’s heart. Lennie Golden may well prove to be Lucky Santangelo’s wild card. Mixing pwer with lust, love with hate, ambition with one crime lord’s insatiable need to avenge, LUCKY shows Jackie Collins at the very top of the inimitable form that made blockbuster bestsellers of CHANCES and HOLLYWOOD WIVES. Hardcover, 639 pages. In very good pre-loved condition.