Fighting Bob

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

When an African-American woman arrives whipped and tortured at the Club on Lake Superior, she interrupts a meeting of powerbrokers setting up the 1924 senate election. Russell hoped to use the meeting to garner support for his candidate, Joe Stanislawski. But the interruption disrupts Russell's plans.

When Joe rushes to the woods where the woman says the men who beat her are still beating her husband, Russell follows. But what Joe does next surprises everyone involved.

And Russell discovers that in politics, the smallest event can change everything.

"A dark, yet fascinating tale…"

—RT Book Reviews on The Enemy Within

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223061632

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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Fighting Bob

FIGHTING BOB

KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH

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Fighting Bob

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FIGHTING BOB

The club hid behind a grove of trees on the southern shore of Lake Superior. The driveway was a thin, winding unpaved path that seemed to lead nowhere. At night, sailors on the lake barges could see the lights reflected in the windows, but the building gave the illusion of a large, secluded home. The monthly dinners had been going on there since Fighting Bob ran for President the first time. I figured it was the best place for Joe to announce his candidacy and get some statewide support.

He was going for Robert La Follette’s old seat, the one Robert Jr. took when his dad got elected President. Joe was taking on Wisconsin’s biggest family in its home base. He wanted to be a Senator, figuring that the Congress had more power than any other governmental body, especially since the Stalemate of ’25.

I drove my roadster up the windy drive, hearing