A Depression-era tale of corruption and power. Good ol' country boy Bo Gillis is elected governor based solely on smear tactics engineered by crooked party boss Sylvester Marin. Married to Ada, an ambitious call girl he met during the campaign, Bo soon discovers he's only a puppet with Marin pulling the strings. So when Ada convinces her husband to stand up and fight back, it leads to car bombings and blackmail as Marin battles the Gillises for control...

The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.

Freedom hangs in the balance when a colonel discovers a U.S. military plot to take over the nation.

When ambitious attorney Jerry Ladimer makes a deal with a gangster for future political favors, his first order of business is to kill the DA, a reformer who vowed to wipe out the rackets. Appointed special prosecutor, Ladimer keeps tabs on forensic scientist Gordon McKay, whose crime lab gathers the clues. So when the mayor begins to suspect the truth and is murdered before he can act, McKay digs up evidence that will lead to the lawyer, unless Ladimer...

When John Shand is caught breaking into their home to make use of its library, the Wylie clan offers the impoverished student a deal: marry Maggie, their spinster relation, and the family will pay for his schooling. Five years later, John wins a seat in Parliament, unaware his crafty wife is working behind the scenes to make him the man of the hour.

Simon's interest in the campus strike is strengthened by his attraction to Linda, one of the demonstrators occupying the university president's office. Captures the feelings of the campus rebellion that shook America in the late 1960's.

Judge Moffett has turned the New York City night court over which he presides into a well-oiled machine of graft and corruption. Fearing exposure from the investigation of crusading reformer Judge Osgood, Moffett sends his mistress into hiding with evidence of his crimes. This move places the dangerous information on a collision course with a young mother and her good-hearted cabdriver husband, which will potentially destroy the innocent couple₂s...