Flann O?Brien?s most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased after the novel was featured in the 5 October 2005 episode of the hit television series Lost. The series? creators have said that anyone who has read the book ?will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines? of the show. Here it comes to life in a new unabridged recording. ?Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious? wrote one critic about the work of Flann O?Brien.