description: The twisting, turning story follows Billy Dale, San Francisco's most cunning, dirtiest, and most successful political consultant. A hard-bitten, gay ex-New Yorker, he reaches his sweetest victory on Election Day 1991 when former police chief Jack Callahan wins an underdog race for mayor. But the victory is not so sweet for the city's two daily newspapers, The San Francisco Bulletin and The San Francisco Jounal, who endorsed incumbent William Carlson and lost plenty of political clout when he was forced out. That sets the stage for a real roller-coaster ride as the newspapers battle for control of the new mayor and Dale fights to keep his City Hall power intact while navigating through real-life issues of police corruption, toxic pollution, and sexual scandal.
language: English
title: The City and County: A Novel of San Francisco Newsmakers
titlecomplete: The City and County: A Novel of San Francisco Newsmakers
publisher: Dry Bones Pr