Dark Horse
Believing that he will have no trouble being nominated for congress after the death of a long-time political incumbent, lawyer Mitch Dutton finds a terrifying challenge in dark horse Shakespeare McCann, who is out to win at any cost.
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Crusading Texas lawyer Mitch Dutton is running for the U.S. Congress. Young, handsome, charismatic, he has a charming wife and the TV cameras love him. But South County belongs to George "Hurricane" Hammond, the incumbent Republican war-horse who has his party's nomination all but sewn up and will certainly win the general election. There isn't a politician in all of Texas who can beat Hurricane on his own turf.Then the great man dies in a riding "accident" on Primary Day.Suddenly Mitch Dutton is the Man: the Democratic candidate for Congress and a virtual shoo-in come November. With his election assured, now he can address the important issues, keep to the high road and run a good, clean campaign.But his opposition has different ideas.An obscure local election rule gave Shakespeare McCann the Republican nomination. An almost total unknown, a dark horse candidate with no past and no principles, McCann has come from out of nowhere to challenge Mitch Dutton for Hammond's vacated Congressional seat.Without warning, a political campaign that began on solid high ground is rapidly sinking into mud, lust, violence...and death.
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