Word: horganitis
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...case rests principally on an irresistible plot. Rusty Sabich, 39, is the chief deputy prosecutor of Kindle County, somewhere in the Middle West. Raymond Horgan, his boss and mentor for the past twelve years, faces a re- election battle undermined by a stroke of bad news. A little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach...
...that easy, of course. The criminal evidence is inconclusive, and may have been planted with the intent to mislead. Within the agencies he must rely on to aid the investigation, Rusty finds some people who are not Horgan's (or his) friends and who seem disinclined to hurry. And Rusty has an emotional tie to this case that he cannot reveal to any of his fellow professionals. Some months earlier, he had risked his career and his marriage of 17 years on a passionate affair with the murder victim. After a month or so, she jilted him and took...
...innings of pitching, Beal often found himself behind in the count, though he allowed only three walks. Horgan met with even less success, as he threw nine consecutive balls before finding the strike zone...
After batting around in the third inning to score three runs, Harvard rubbed salt in Tufts' and Horgan's wounds by adding four more runs in the fifth inning, to raise the score to 13-2. Pakalnis--who enjoyed a fine game both at shortstop and at the plate--drilled a 2-2 pitch past the centerfielder for a double, scoring Kay and DePalo...
...junior shortstop tallied the Crimson's second and final home run of the day, nailing a solo shot off Horgan...