What Living And Dying Is Like

"One of Australia's most interesting next-gen crime writers."

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD




"Iain Ryan has learned the lessons of the modern maestros James Ellroy, Ken Bruen and James Sallis, but his poetry and cadence is completely Australian."

PETER DOYLE




An ex-con circles back to L. A. and knows it is a mistake. Elsewhere, in Vegas, a restless kid buys a mysterious, stolen guitar. Two characters, worlds apart, but drawn together by the same buried history. Spread across two connected stories, Iain Ryan's What Living And Dying Is Like is about regret and hard-won recovery.




Iain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. Author of FOUR DAYS (2015), THE STUDENT (2017) and THE SPIRAL (2020).
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