Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He has worked in magazine publishing in New York and as as EFL teacher in Italy. His debut novel, The Dark Fields, was released in 2011 as the hit movie Limitless, which went to # 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. His most recent novel, Graveland, concluded his highly acclaimed trilogy of thrillers which included Bloodland, the Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year in 2011 which was also Edgar nominated in the US.