Flann OÕBrienÕs 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 hit television series Lost. The seriesÕ creators have said that anyone who has read the book Òwill have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlinesÓ of the show. Here it comes to life in a new unabridged recording. ÒEven with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been enviousÓ wrote one critic about the work of Flann OÕBrien.