{"product_id":"9780380787708","title":"Dark Horse","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrusading 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061394850032,"sku":"9780380787708","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780380787708_p0.gif?v=1763693846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780380787708","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}