Caractéristique matérielle : WHEN MARSHALL MCEWAN LEFT HIS HOMETOWN AT AGE 18, HE VOWED NEVER TO RETURN. THE TRAUMA THAT DROVE HIM AWAY ULTIMATELY SPURRED HIM TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL JOURNALISTS IN WASHINGTON DC. BUT JUST AS THE POLITICAL CHAOS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL LIFTS HIM TO NEW HEIGHTS, MARSHALL IS FORCED TO RETURN HOME IN SPITE OF HIS BOYHOOD VOW. HIS FATHER IS DYING, HIS MOTHER IS STRUGGLING TO KEEP THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER FROM FAILING, AND THE TOWN IS IN THE MIDST OF AN ECONOMIC REBIRTH THAT MIGHT BE BUILT UPON CRIMES THAT REACH INTO THE STATE CAPITOL - AND PERHAPS EVEN TO WASHINGTON. MORE DISTURBING STILL, MARSHALL'S HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART, JET, HAS MARRIED INTO THE FAMILY OF MAX MATHESON, PATRIARCH OF ONE OF THE FAMILIES THAT RULE BIENVILLE THROUGH A SHADOW ORGANIZATION CALLED THE BIENVILLE POKER CLUB., Nbr de pages : 590 P.,