| Front Runner. A novel of Texas politics. by Rob Allyn. Published by Crown Publishers, Inc. New York in 1990. Case bound good condition approximately 16 by 23.5 by 3 cm. from the dust jacket - Front Runner is the story of a boyhood fued that haunts the lives of two men and those around them, the tale of a college date-rape and its smoldering aftermath , the rise and fall and rise again of two desperately ambitious Texans; one a brutal, ruthless outsider who will stop at nothing; the other a privileged insider who learns to play the cruel, hard price of power. Swift and suspenseful, the reckless plot of Front Runner culminates with a surprise twist that destroys one man and makes the other a national figure. .... Rob Allyn has spent fifteen years in Texas and Washington politics, as a congressional aide, speechwriter, political consultant, and media strategist. He has been a contributing editor of D magazine, writing about politics, crime, and Dallas society. Rob and his wife currently own an advertising agency in Dallas and are the proud pareents of a son.
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