Thank you! So probably my biggest literary influence for this kind of writing is Richard Stark AKA Donald Westlake, who wrote an amazing series of crime novels with a criminal as the main character. I basically like stuff that's quite minimal and taut - so, as well as Richard Stark, I like Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy etc. There is some older stuff that I think is great too: Eric Ambler (espionage), Margery Allingham (British detective stories), and the original noir writers like Dashiell Hammett. And, not literature, but I'm also a huge fan of Tarantino's recent films: I loved the way he packed in great dialogue, enormous tension, and a sense of history into Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight, and that's kind of the flavour I'm going for with this series.