The Power of Passion

by Paul Mantell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916217841
• ISBN13: 9780916217846
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Pioneer Communications Network
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

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Cliff runs for the Senate, and Lucy runs away

"The Power of Passion" is the fourth in a series of novelizations on the 1980s "Dallas" TV series. The books come from the Soaps & Serials imprint of Pioneer Communications Network, which also did similar novelizations of TV's "Guiding Light," "Days of Our Lives" and "Dallas" spinoff "Knots Landing," among others. There are at least 14 books in the "Dallas" series. This novel covers the show's second-season episodes "Runaway" and "Election." The Ewings are planning a 17th birthday party for Lucy. The girl gets a letter from her mother, Valene, explaining to her daughter that she never asked J.R. for money to leave town (as J.R. had alleged). Lucy tells her family, but no one believes her. She asks her Granddaddy if she can invite Valene to her party, but the answer is no. Lucy takes off in J.R.'s Mercedes. She meets up with psycho Willie Gust at a diner, and at first she's enthralled, then terrified, by the crime spree Willie takes her along for. Armed robbery is his forte. Cliff is campaigning, meanwhile, and J.R. and Jock are scheming to put Cliff's opponent, Harrison Slade, in the Senate seat, with the endorsement of Congressman Oates. Cliff comes up with some dirt on Slade, forcing the cartel to find another candidate. They do, and they also learn (inadvertently from Pam) about a skeleton rattling around in Cliff's closet: the former girlfriend who died from a botched -- and illegal -- abortion.