Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied English Literature, and has worked in magazine publishing in New York and as an 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, and became a hit CBS network show. His other novels include Bloodland, the Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year in 2011, also nominated for an Edgar, and Paradime, described in the Guardian as a 'wheels-within-wheels conspiracy novel both insidious and ingenious'. He is married with two children and lives in Dublin.