DARK HORSE by Doug Richardson - FIRST EDITION BOOK

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.