Chapter TwoIn that darkened room her face was illuminated by the light from the computer, casting delicate shadows around her cheekbones and making the blueness of her eyes more intense and absorbing. I stood watching for a while as she balanced her chin in the palm of one hand and peered anxiously into the screen. She never moved as I placed her glass beside her.
“I started to hear whispers some time ago that the Republicans had a 'wild-card' they were selecting for nomination at the Iowa caucus. The friend of mine who told me said he heard that this 'ace-in-the-hole' character had something big on Harvey. I thought it was all bluster on their part to shake things up. Usual kind of thing after your party has had two terms in the White House, are stale and out of ideas. I don't know if yo
