Book description
Corey Grace-a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio-is
plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle
with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of
the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War pilot, Grace insists on voting
his own conscience rather than the party line, and this stubborn
independence-together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an
African-American movie star-has earned him a reputation as an
unpredictable iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake
buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test
in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past
or present life is off-limits. A vivid and sometimes frightening
depiction of contemporary power politics, The Race culminates in a
deadlocked and febrile party convention where Grace must resolve the
conflict between his feelings for Lexie and his presidential
ambitions-and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice.
Richard North Patterson is the author of fourteen previous
bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including Conviction,
Balance of Power and Exile. Formerly a trial lawyer, Patterson was the
SEC's liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor and has served on
the boards of several Washington advocacy groups. He lives in San
Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard with his partner, Dr Nancy Clair.
