"In this election caper from a leading political operative and commentator, a cynical campaign manager finds his family skeletons coming out of the closet on the eve of the convention"-- Provided by publisher.

New Orleans in July is hot and sticky and squalid, and J. D. Callahan is displeased to be back in his hometown. His candidate, the sitting vice president, is neck and neck with an anti-immigrant, right-wing populist as the Republicans head into their first brokered convention in decades on the heels of a staggering global economic crisis. Then J. D.'s estranged brother shows up and threatens to reveal a family secret that would ruin the legacy of their civil rights journalist father and destroy J. D.'s own reputation. With damage to contain on all sides, J. D. is forced to reconcile the political career he's always put first with the past he's tried to leave behind.