Dark Horse

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. 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. There is no weakness McCann will not exploit, no secret he cannot expose. Shakespeare McCann would kill to be congressman. Without warning, a political campaign that began on solid high ground is rapidly sinking into mud, lust, violence . . .and death. Candidate Dutton has seen the true face of his opponent - and it is the terrifying face of a psychopath. The Dark Horse is gaining - and there is nothing he won't do to get elected. Nothing.