Body Scissors
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simon, Michael, PUBLISHER: Viking Books, Set in the oil bust days of late s Texas, Michael Simons explosive debut, "Dirty Sally," introduced readers to Detective ong>Danong> Reles, Austin Homicides only New Yorker and its only Jew. In "Body Scissors," a brand-new decade brings a new criminal web of intrigue and violence for ong>Danong> to untangle. Its January , and as America watches the bombs drop on Iraq at the start of Desert Storm, a botched assassination attempt on Virginia Key, a rising black community leader, captures the attention of the local press. With one of Keys children in a coma and the other dead, ong>Danong> is eager to investigate. That is, until department politics bump him off the case. Meanwhile, several affluent white college kids fall comatose and doctors are frantic to find an explanation. As a bizarre chain of events puts ong>Danong> on the trail of a psychotic drug dealer with a broad network of influence and a hit list (featuring ong>Danong>s name prominently), ong>Danong> is certain he can catch the dealer and break the case wide openunless the dealer gets to ong>Danong> first. A violent and thrilling adventure ride, "Body Scissors" confirms Michael Simon as the next big talent in hard-boiled crime fiction.