Finished Man — George Garrett

Mike Royle, passionless and uncommitted, flees New York's gray winters, the dull routine of his law firm job, and the malaise of his recent divorce to return to his Florida hometown and work for longtime family friend Senator Allen Parker. Parker shocks constituents by announcing his bid for another term - after his protege and the Party's rising star John Batten as declared his own candidacy. When Mike's father, the hardscrabble success Judge Joseph Royle, also joins the race, a rabid course is set, and Mike - saddled with both southern roots and a modern conscience - stumbles toward the self-knowledge of a finished man.