Alan Glynn
Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. His first novel, The Dark Fields, was released as the movie Limitless in 2011. His other novels include Bloodland, Winterland, and Graveland. Glynn lives in Ireland with his wife and two sons.
All Books By Alan Glynn
Bloodland
- By: Alan Glynn
- Narrator: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 31, 2012
- Language: English
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3.55(432 ratings)
A helicopter crash off the coast of Ireland sends unexpected ripples through the international community in this intricate new thriller from the author of Winterland and Limitless (now a major motion picture).
Susie Monaghan was on the cusp of stardom when her life was cut short by a tragic helicopter crash. After a full investigation, her death was ruled an accident: case closed. But a hungry young journalist named Jimmy Gilroy isn’t buying the official story. Before dying, Susie’s path had crossed with an unlikely gallery of powerful men: an ex-prime minister with a carefully guarded secret; the businessman brother of a U.S. senator angling for the Oval Office; and a billionaire investor with his eye on an extremely rare commodity. Might there also be a link between Susie’s death and a deranged security contractor operating in Congo?
Piece by piece, Jimmy uncovers a bizarre nexus of coincidence among these disparate people and events, revealing a conspiracy of frightening reach and consequence – one that could cost him his life.
Set against a vividly drawn world of corporate and political intrigue, Alan Glynn’s Bloodland is a riveting paranoid thriller of uncommon depth and pause-resistant suspense.
... Read moreGraveland
- By: Alan Glynn
- Narrator: Angela Brazil
- Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.83(6334 ratings)
Someone is assassinating the financial industry’s most powerful players—in cold blood and in broad daylight—in this intricate, eerily relevant thriller from Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Bloodland and Limitless.
On a bright Saturday morning, a Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Hours later, one of New York City’s savviest hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. Are these killings a coordinated terrorist attack or just a coincidence? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch they’re neither, and when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, her theory is confirmed. The story blows wide open, and as Ellen races to stay ahead of the curve, her path collides with that of a recession-hit architect, Frank Bishop, whose daughter’s disappearance may be tied to the murders.
Set deep in a shadow world of corrupt business deals and radical politics—with a plot that echoes today’s headlines in haunting and unexpected ways—Graveland is a mind-blowing thriller that intensifies with every page.
... Read moreLimitless
- By: Alan Glynn
- Narrator: Fred Berman
- Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.83(3119 ratings)
Now a major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, and Abbie Cornish.
Alan Glynn’s Limitless is a high-concept thriller for this Adderall age, and a haunting meditation on the allure and the curse of human potential.
A burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm. One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wife’s brother, and his ex-dealer. Now employed by a shadowy pharmaceutical company, Vernon has something that might help: a new designer drug that stimulates brain function. One pill and Eddie is hooked. His book is finished within days; he learns and synthesizes information at a frightening rate; and he can go a long time without sleep or food. Naturally, he begins to play the stock market. But when Vernon turns up dead, Eddie makes off with the only stash of the drug in existence. Then come the side effects: black-outs, blinding headaches, and violent outbursts he can’t seem to remember.
... Read moreParadime
- By: Alan Glynn
- Narrator: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.42(366 ratings)
What would you do if life handed you a double?
Danny Lynch didn’t sign up for this, but right now this line cook gig is all he’s got. Three weeks ago he was gainfully employed in Afghanistan and doing fine. Now he’s back in New York City and lucky to be employed at all, even if that means dicing carrots for ten hours a day in a stuffy Midtown restaurant. The job’s one saving grace is a sight line from his prep station in the kitchen to a coveted corner table in the main room. For Danny this is a window into the lives of Barcadero’s flashy clientele–which, he soon discovers, includes a man who happens to look exactly like him.
Teddy Trager is a young venture capitalist, the visionary founder of billion-dollar investment firm Paradime Capital. He has everything Danny never knew he wanted–a cashmere suit, a gorgeous girlfriend, a sleek sports car–and the closer Danny looks at Trager, the more fixated he becomes.
A new stand-alone novel from the award-winning author of Limitless, Paradime is a harrowing story of a twenty-first-century identity crisis that thrills from the start.
... Read moreReceptor
- By: Alan Glynn
- Narrator: Fred Berman
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 08, 2019
- Language: English
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3.86(156 ratings)
From Alan Glynn–the author of Limitless–comes Receptor, an irresistable thriller that reveals the origins of MDT-48 and the consequences of unlocking the human mind.
On a Friday evening in 1953, Madison Avenue ad executive Ned Sweeney enjoys a cocktail in the apartment of a strange and charismatic man he met hours earlier. Ned doesn’t know it, but he has just become a participant in Project MK-Ultra, a covert, CIA-run study of mind-control techniques. The experience transforms Ned, pulling him away from his wife and young son and into the inner circles of the richest and most powerful people of his day. In a matter of months, he is dead.
It is a tragedy Ned’s family struggles to understand, then tries to forget . . . but some skeletons refuse to stay buried. More than sixty years later, Ned’s grandson Ray is introduced to a retired government official who claims to know the details of Ned’s life and death. Ray is prepared to dismiss the encounter, until he discovers that the now-elderly man once worked for the CIA. Ray digs deeper, and begins to question everything as he uncovers rumors of a mysterious “smart drug”–a fabled black-market cognitive enhancer called MDT-48.
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