Tom Hiney is a British journalist and author who wrote the biography 'Raymond Chandler' (1997), widely regarded as the definitive life of the noir novelist.
Hiney's biography illuminated Chandler's anti-institutional worldview — the detective as lone moral agent in a corrupt system — which Nolan absorbed as a template for characters like Batman and Cobb.
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