Favorite Son (1987)
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Steve Sohmer's 1987 bestseller begins with seven shots fired on the Capitol steps as Senator Terry Fallon of Texas introduces a Nicaraguan Contra leader, and follows nine days in which the White House, the Speaker and the CIA fight over the young senator who has become America's favorite son. The FBI agent Joe Mancuso and his younger partner Ross work the assassination. (Open Library)
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- Benrus watch
- Ross looks up from the video monitor at his partner, a dumpy, aging flatfoot with his necktie lying wrinkled and apart, whose Benrus has a crystal so scratched that he can barely read the hands, and sees the forgotten pensioner Mancuso will soon be. Mancuso is more interested in whether Ross told anybody they had a line on Petersen. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: His Benrus watch had a crystal so scratched that he could barely read the hands. (Steve Sohmer, Favorite Son, scan cataloged as Bantam Books, 1987, p. 345; the exchange runs from p. 344 and the copyright page dates the Bantam edition to November 1987; Internet Archive scan OCR)