Booth Mooney (1912-1977) is best known as the biographer of his friend President Lyndon B. Johnson, for whom he worked as a speech writer and assistant. He wrote three novels (Here Is My Body, Jewel of Gold and The Insiders) as well as the biographies The Lyndon Johnson Story and LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle, among other non-fiction.
Renie's husband wants to become Governor and she knows it's a big climb, one she is willing to make for him. The rungs of the ladder she will use to get him there are the bodies of her lovers, who think they are conquering her but it's the other way around. The same is true for her husband, because he's not the one who will be wielding the political power when they get to the Governor's mansion...