THE RACE BY RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON IN SOUTH AFRICA

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 favourite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right.  A decorated Gulf War pilot, Grace insists on voting according to his own conscience rather than follow 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. Soft cover, very good condition 339 pages.