... , comes into the story. He is a reporter and assigned to cover Stark and his campaign. He winds up becoming an aide to Stark and helping him in his "dirty work," persuasion and bribery, mostly. One of these jobs was to dig up some dirt on Judge Irwin, a man who had been like a father to Burden when he was growing up. Burden ... not to turn it over until the Judge saw it. During this period, he was constantly battling with what he felt was wrong and what was right. One of the themes that I got out of this book deals with the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." The rhyme goes like this: "Humpty...

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• Grade Level: High School