DIRTY SALLY
by Michael Simon
U.S. Publisher: Viking [Summer 2004]
Austin, Texas in the 1980’s is a dangerous city in transition - dangerous even for its police. No one knows that better than Detective Dan Reles, whose partner was killed in a grisly and unexplainable accident.
An immigrant from New York, Dan is the ultimate outsider on the city’s homicide squad. He’s haunted by the memory of his only friend, and he’s teetering on the brink of suspension from the force. Sent to the scene of an accidental death, Dan stumbles upon the torso of a brutally murdered young woman. Now the case that could save his career will put him on a collision course with the powerful elite of Texas society - and with his own squad.
Michael Simon has created in Dan a complex character at odds with an unjust world, a journey into the noir universe that appeals to James Ellroy and his readers. Reading the manuscript before it was submitted to publishers, Ellroy said:
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"DIRTY SALLY is my kind of novel - tough, dark and gritty. Michael Simon’s prose is as riveting as his characters. His Austin homicide squad takes me back to Los Angeles in the ’50’s - lawless and dangerous, especially to cops." |
DIRTY SALLY is the first of a projected series of thrillers featuring Dan Reles. The author is already at work on the sequel, SCORPION MOON.
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