Neck & Neck

Two-term incumbent U.S. Senator Finn Harper envisioned a cakewalk election to a third term, followed by his ultimate goal - a successful run for the U.S. Presidency. That was before a young and popular state senator named Maria Santos broke with the party and entered the race. Now Harper and his campaign staff of cast-offs and wannabes, headed by the ruthless Joan Wright, are fighting for their political lives.Hired by a pain-the-neck client to follow an ex-con, PI Earl Town begins to suspect he has become part of a conspiracy by a powerful U.S. senator to paint his upstart challenger as soft on crime. When a campaign staffer is murdered, and the man Town was hired to follow is accused of the villainy, the PI goes rogue to stop the framing of an innocent man and catch the real killer.