Both a sequel and prequel to Alan Glynn's classic debut, which became the #1 hit movie Limitless , Under the Night is an irresistible thriller about the seductive power and dangers of unlocking the human mind. In 1950s Manhattan, the CIA are conducting a covert study of psychoactive drugs. When they dose ad man Ned Sweeney with MDT-48, he finds his horizons dramatically expand, as he is hurtled towards the corridors of the rich and powerful. Just months later, Ned plunges to his death from a fourteenth-floor window of the Fairbrook Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The official story: he jumped. Over 60 years later, Ned's grandson, Ray, meets a retired government official who claims he can illuminate not only Ned's life and death, but also the truth behind the mysterious drug MDT-48. Alan Glynn is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied English Literature, and has worked in magazine publishing in New York and as an EFL teacher in Italy. His debut novel, The Dark Fields , was released in 2011 as the hit movie Limitless , which went to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic, and became a hit CBS network show. His other novels include Bloodland , the Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year in 2011, also nominated for an Edgar, and Paradime , described in the Guardian as a "wheels-within-wheels conspiracy novel both insidious and ingenious." He is married with two children and lives in Dublin.