Called "tough, dark and gritty" by James Ellroy, Michael Simon's debut Dirty Sally introduced readers to Detective Dan Reles, Austin Homicide's only New Yorker and only Jew. In Body Scissors , the Texas capital catches war fever as Operation Desert Storm kicks off, while Reles fights a few battles of his own-against his own department's bigotry, a drug lord, a slew of mysterious deaths, and a well-connected gunman.