The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. On page 214 they're talking about upcoming election for the mayor of Chicago, and Patrick Pendergast is thinking he's in the cat bird's seat:
He had read extensively into law and politics and understood that political machines operated on a first principle of power: if you work to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back. Harrison was in his debt.
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