Gene Kerrigan was born and lives in Dublin, where he has covered politics, crime and scandals for over thirty years. He wrote for Magill magazine and the Sunday Tribune, and currently writes for the Sunday Independent. Among his non-fiction books are the bestselling Hard Cases, Another Country, This Great Little Nation and The Big Lie: Who Profits From Ireland's Austerity? He is also the author of four novels, the latest of which, The Rage, won the UK’s top crime fiction award, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, at the 2012 Crime Writers’ Association awards.