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Orange Crush

Tim Dorsey

2001292 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001W. Morrow · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780060185770
  • 2001HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 341 pages · ENGISBN 9780007116782
  • 2006HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061160806
  • 2006HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061172090
  • 2014HarperCollins Publishers Limited · ENGISBN 9780007571628
  • 2002HarperTorch · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780061031540

The Republicans' "golden boy" -- and a loyal, unquestioning tool of the powerful special interests -- handsome, unthreatening, Florida governor-by-default Marlon Conrad seems a virtual shoo-in for re-election. That is, until he undergoes a radical personality shift during a bloody military action in the Balkans. Now it's just three weeks before the election and Marlon is suddenly talking about "issues" and "reform" as he crosses the length and breadth of his home state with an amnesiac speechwriter and a chief of staff who turns catatonic in the presence of minorities. The governor's new-found conscience might well cost him the election, though. And it appears that pretty much everybody from Tallahassee to Miami Beach is trying to kill him...

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