Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ...What crime novel would you most like to have written?
THE LONG GOODBYE by Raymond Chandler.
What fictional character would you most like to have been?
Harry Morgan in Hemingway’s TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (esp the film version, where he gets taught how to whistle by Lauren Bacall: ‘You just put your lips together and blow.’
What do you read for guilty pleasures?
Hello magazine at the dentist, even though I don’t know who anybody is any more.
Most satisfying writing moment?
Writing the journals of Francisco Falcón for THE BLIND MAN OF SEVILLE.
The best Irish crime novel is…?
THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE by John Banville.
Which Irish crime novel would make a great movie?
ASYLUM by Patrick McGrath (or has it been done and nobody told me?)
Worst / best thing about being a writer?
Worst thing about being a writer: the loneliness. Best thing about being a writer: the solitary nature of the work.
The pitch for your next book is …?
My pitch for THE IGNORANCE OF BLOOD is: El ultimo Falcón: Russian mafiosi and Islamist terrorists find inventive ways to make people dance to their tune in the sweltering heat of Seville.
Who are you reading right now?
Fiction: THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga. Non-fiction: DREAMS FROM MY FATHER by Barack Obama.
God appears and says you can only write or read. Which would it be?
Read. Who could resist a life of pleasure rather than endless dissatisfaction?
The three best words to describe your writing are ...?
Descriptive. Complex. Demanding.
Robert Wilson’s THE IGNORANCE OF BLOOD is available now
Asylum was turned into a movie about five years ago staring Liam Neeson
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