Crime Does Pay, Apparently

“It’s not every day that you meet the winner of Britain’s biggest literary prize and end up conducting the kind of forensic interview you might with a yob on an antisocial behaviour order. But in the past week, astonishing things have been said about the enigmatic, 42-year-old Mexican-Australian who penned his debut novel, Vernon God Little, under the pseudonym, DBC Pierre.” In fact, the author’s shady past goes far beyond even the rumors which have dogged him recently, and Peter Finlay (Pierre’s real name) isn’t apologizing for any of it.