Paddy Hirsch is a journalist, author and ex-marine. He was brought up in Ireland: first in the Republic, and then in the North. As a non-fiction writer, reporter and editor, he specialises in business, finance and economics. As a fiction author, he writes historical crime fiction and contemporary thrillers. He loves police procedurals, military history and pretty much anything noir. He lives in Los Angeles, where he reports for NPR, edits for Bloomberg Audio and teaches audio journalism at USC.