Daniel Scott Buck works as an investigator at the public defender’s office in Portland, Oregon. His debut novel, The Greatest Show on Earth, is a dark comedy about the media frenzy surrounding allegations of sex abuse and the popular mania for Reality TV. Daniel Scott Buck’s second novel, The Humane & The Petty, is expected to be released in the spring of 2006. H&P is a work of realism about mandatory sentencing laws and other kinds of mechanical thinking.