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J.D. O'Brien was educated by nuns and holds a degree from the Jack Dempsey Bartending School in New York City. He studied under Gordon Lish, George Pelecanos and Jonathan Ames, and worked for David Mamet and John Sayles. He's been a bartender, cold caller, dishwasher, waterslide operator and clerk at the Strand Book Store. He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts and has a dog named Lefty.
"""Feels like a great 70s movie.""--- David Gordon Green, director of Pineapple Express ""J.D. O'Brien has written the perfect Country & Western novel.""--Mike Postalakis, author of L.A. By Mouth: The Essential Guide To Eating In Los Angeles ""A rare debut crime novel with the hardboiled humor of Charles Willeford and Barry Gifford, J.D. O'Brien's saga of a dope-smoking, Nudie suit-wearing bail bondsman is a freewheeling oater for the ages.""--- Jim Ruland, author of Forest Of Fortune, Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall Of SST Records ""An at times funny, at times hard-boiled, at times sweetly sad crime romp set in some of the scuzzier pockets of Southern California. J.D. O'Brien lovingly limns these divey bars, rundown motels, and ticky-tacky apartments and brings to life the stoned and soused oddballs who stumble through them. It's Elmore Leonard meets Warren Zevon with a wry sensibility all its own, and I enjoyed every page of it."" - Richard Lange, author of Rovers, The Smack, and Angel Baby ""A book that starts with an epigraph from D.C. Berman already has me eating out of its hand but then J.D. O'Brien goes and ups the ante. Zig Zag is a cosmic American crime odyssey that's reminiscent of Barry Gifford, James Crumley, Charles Portis, Elmore Leonard, and Charles Willeford. Wild, funny, and entertaining as hell. Capri Dall and Harry Robatore are characters I won't soon forget."" -William Boyle, author of Shoot the Moonlight Out, City of Margins, and A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself ""A weed-soaked modern western packed with laugh-out-loud digressions and hard luck characters so real I half-expected to find one sitting on a barstool next to me long after I finished the novel. The kind of offbeat book that I can't wait to loan out to friends."" - Duncan Birmingham, author of The Cult In My Garage and writer/director of Who Invited Them"
