Very Few Have Excellence — Jim Arneberg

To keep his family alive, JackFalon becomes a speechwriter for a Mafia financed political campaign. Thecandidate, an heir to a franchise of car dealerships, is an arrogant, bumbling,yet pliable member of Chicago'ssuburbanite aristocracy vying for a seat in the Unites States Senate. Jacktries to hover above the political and criminal intrigue but is pulled down byhis brother's inability to control the Arapahos, a vicious street gang, and hisaffair with a fellow campaign worker, a younger woman of gothic predilections.His paramour is kidnapped when Jack refuses to cooperate with a Kansas City outfit attempting to insinuate itself into Jack'spolitical juggernaut by toppling Chicago'scrime patriarch, Lupo the Wolf. When a journalist threatening to expose Jack'spast criminal associations stalls the campaign, Jackmust scour the city for his woman while fending off intimidation from localgangs run from Atlanta's federalprison. Very Few Have Excellenceis the fifth in the Jack Falon series and has all theaction and naked violence that marked Jim Arneberg'sprevious books: Into an Unseen Distance, A Long Drop to Eternity, AMan Is What He Hides and Not Seeing the Stars.