LAWRENCE OSBORNE is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark, and Beautiful Animals, as well as six books of nonfiction. He is the author of the new Philip Marlowe novel, Only to Sleep, and is the third writer to be asked by the Raymond Chandler estate to write a new Marlowe novel. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Forbes, Harper’s, and other publications. He lives in Bangkok.