num_pages: 279
description: A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S. senator - but not without paying the usual dues, which turns out to be a dirty business. Gance wastes his love on married women, but ultimately learns who his true mistress is: "I had arrived an apprentice from Chicago, but Washington had taken care of that. It was a great city. . . . It gave and gave and gave and gave and expected nothing in return but loyalty."
language: English
title: Jack Gance
titlecomplete: Jack Gance
characters: Jack Gance, Elly Mozart, Iva Gance, Patrick Bayley, Carole Nierendorf, Victor Gance, Katrina Lauren, Charles Nierendorf, Carl Fahr, Tap Gobelin, Phil Karcher
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 88
places: Chicago, Illinois, Washington, D.C.
publisher: Mariner Books