conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Dallas, Morning, News with the genre: Sports & Outdoors, Baseball?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Down to the Wire'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Down To The Wire about Poss, County, Michigan with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: As a teenager, the author accompanied his father, a Republican district chairman in New Castle County, Delaware, going door-to-door to welcome and register as voters the new homeowners rapidly populating the expanding post-Word War II suburbs. As a student at Colgate University, he cheered as the overheated leader of the College Young Republicans introduced Nelson Rockefeller as "The Governor of the United States." In 1968, Poss plunged into his first presidential race as the Michigan co-ordinator for the Paulsen for President campaign, and stood proudly in the wings as the candidate laconically conceded the primary, "edged by Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy." Poss still treasures that evening's stirring cri de coeur and the pride with which Pat Paulsen cited his rising momentum, from 2 votes in New Hampshire to 4 votes in Massachusetts and an astounding 50% improvement to 6 votes in the hotly-contested Michigan primary. The craggy and cagy candidate concluded: "I sense a groundswell." On election night in 2008, not one to idle on the sidelines, Poss manned the piano at an Obama bundler's home, pounding out his newly-minted verses--29 in all--to the Democrats' longtime rallying anthem. One verse should suffice: 'At each polling place, held firm; Said there'd be no four-year term, for Arizona's cranky pachyderm... Happy Days Are Here Again!' Winner of the Lasher Prize and The Mellish Award, Poss has been honored for his lyrics to the Country & Western classic, 'Severely Delinquent'; with a CLIO award for CBS TV commercials; and for his staggering mastery of rhyming couplets presented at 60-Second Poetry Slams. Poised to publish his third novel in early 2017, a thriller set in the Caribbean during the '60s aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, Poss is hard at work on his fourth novel, a sequel to Down To The Wire primed with more political hi-jinks, improbable characters and hilarity on the campaign trail. When not at the keyboard, Poss can be found conducting tasting tours to family-owned wineries in Northern Sonoma County, California, where zesty Zinfandels rule! For more, log on to: www.posspragoff.com
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Down to the Wire
  He called me this morning to convey the threat, and he made it clear that he considered it a retaliation for my refusing to write about two other murders that he committed.
  One of those victims was Bruce Harlow, a superb writer and colleague of mine at this newspaper. The other was a prostitute who went by the name of Charity, and who was with Mayor Alex Stanley in his hotel room when he was arrested.
  I had not written about Mr. Harlow's murder because I was not aware of any concrete evidence implicating P.T. in the murder, and I was not aware of Charity's death at all until P.T.'s phone call.
  But P.T. was not interested in my explanations; he pronounced my behavior to be the cause of a murder he vows to commit at precisely 11:47 A.M. tomorrow.
  I have no idea who his intended victim is, what the method will be, or whether in fact he intends to go through with it. But I felt compelled to voice this warning because there seems to be no line that P.T. will not cross.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: The third reason for checking out Peter Randolph was more obvious. Chris had no idea what else to do.
  The problem, of course, was that he also had no idea how to go about his investigating. While most of America had considered him a hero for a week or two back when this all began, it was not in Chris's DNA to be physically aggressive. All he wanted to do was somehow assess whether Peter Randolph was a viable suspect and then he would turn him over to Novack to handle.
  Chris drove to the Clifton address that Scott had given him. It was about three blocks from Nash Park, where Chris had played high school baseball. For some reason, he recalled in the moment that his father had never seen him pitch in one of those games, yet every time his father came home, he would ask Chris how his arm was doing.
  Actually, Edward didn't use the word "arm," he would use "wing." He would say, "How's the wing holding up?"
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last two paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Agent Nick Quinlan's star continues to rise in the FBI and, depending on the results of the next election, he is considered a candidate for either director of the FBI or head of Homeland Security. At this point, the idea of taking a desk job like those is not particularly tempting.
  Jonathan Novack is also considered a hero for his role in the P.T. saga, and has had three in-depth magazine pieces written about him.