Robert Dawson, poice reporter for the Washington Herald, hard-drinking ex-Marine with a sardonic view of practically everything, finds himself first covering and then involved in a string of tuly bizarre murders involving grotesque mutilation and apparent Satanic rituals. Then his girlfriend, Attila the Liberal, who works for one of those super-secret three-letter spook agencies, begins receiving body parts from the murderees. Somebody, it seems, doesn't like Dawson. Riveting fiction by an author with eight years experience of covering Washington's police department.
The second of Reed's 1990's DC mysteries. Similar to the first, including some recycled discriptions and lines. This one involves a serial killer and I found it a little lacking compared to the first one.