Tim Willocks is a novelist and filmmaker. He is the author of the novels "Bad City Blues, Blood-Stained Kings, "and "Green River Rising", which has been translated into fifteen languages. Willocks holds a degree in surgery and practiced psychiatry and addiction medicine until 2003. He also spent ten years writing screenplays and producing films in Hollywood. He completed "The Religion" in a cabin in the backwoods of upstate New York and now lives in County Kerry, Ireland.