
What James Ellroy did for L.A., Michael Simon now does for Austin, Texas, in the first of a series of ferociously paced crime novels. The time is the oil-bust year of 1988. The detective is Dan Reles, a New York–born Jew marooned among good ol’ boys and unhinged by the violent...

A New Yorker by birth, police detective Dan Reles fled to Texas at the age of fifteen when his father?s friendship? with the mob turned sour. Now a member of Austin?s homicide unit, he?s the department?s only Yankee and its only Jew. Still reeling from his partner?s recent death,...

