Robert Charles Reuland (born 1963) is an American novelist and attorney. Reuland commenced his legal career in 1990 in Manhattan, working in the litigation departments of two large corporate firms before joining the district attorney's office in Brooklyn in 1996. Since 2001, Reuland has had a parallel career as a novelist. He is the author of two published novels, Hollowpoint (Random House 2001) and Semiautomatic (Random House 2004). Both books are set in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, where Reuland was a prosecutor in the homicide bureau. Reuland gained national notoriety in 2001 when fired from his position in the district attorney's office shortly after the publication of his first book, Hollowpoint. Reuland brought a federal lawsuit claiming infringement of his First Amendmen