The Big Brass Ring

Blake Pellarin is running for Governor of Missouri in the year 2000. He’s keeping a steady eye on his real goal - the White House - the fabled “brass ring”. Blake’s wife Dinah is heir to an oil fortune, and the couple’s deep pockets permit Blake to run as an independent candidate - a winning strategy that’s turned him into a national news item. At this auspicious moment, a mysterious figure emerges from Blake’s past - Dr. Kimball ‘Kim’ Mennake: a political genius of the Kennedy-Nixon era, but also the keeper of an explosive secret - a secret that relates to a neglected brother Blake lost in Vietnam. In private, Kim provokes Blake with a sexy blackmail photo, and in public drops tantalising hints of what he knows to an ambitious journalist.