Tim's first novel,
Bad City Blues
, was published in London in 1991. His second,
Green River Rising
, was translated into fifteen languages. In writing a screenplay of the latter for director Alan J. Pakula, he was lured into
the film business, and this occupied most of his writing endeavors for several years. During that time he wrote and produced three feature films:
Bad City Blues
(with Dennis Hopper),
Swept from the Sea
(with Rachel Weisz and Sir Ian McKellen), and
Sin
(with Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames). He has written many other screenplays and worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood, including Steven Spielberg, Curtis Hanson, and Michael Mann.
Tim completed
The Religion
in a cabin in the backwoods of upstate New York. He now lives in a nineteenth-century farmhouse in County Kerry, Ireland.