The Republicans' "golden boy" -- and a loyal, unquestioning tool of the
powerful special interests -- handsome, unthreatening, Florida
governor-by-default Marlon Conrad seems a virtual shoo-in for
re-election. That is, until he undergoes a radical personality shift
during a bloody military action in the Balkans. Now it's just three
weeks before the election and Marlon is suddenly talking about "issues"
and "reform" as he crosses the length and breadth of his home state with
an amnesiac speechwriter and a chief of staff who turns catatonic in the
presence of minorities. The governor's new-found conscience might well
cost him the election, though. And it appears that pretty much everybody
from Tallahassee to Miami Beach is trying to kill him...