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Jay Hector MacLarty (December 30, 1943 - Dec. 23, 2010) American entrepreneur and novelist. Jay MacLarty was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa. His early years were spent in Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota. By the time he was thirty he had owned restaurants, nightclubs, and liquor stores, then founded a string of retail stores and a software company. He wrote one of the first computerized handicapping programs for thoroughbred racing. (Ken White, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 11, 2005 page 1E).

He decided to take time off from his software business and write fiction. Unable to sell his first effort, a thousand-page novel, he decided to write a popular book (Ken White, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 11, 2005 page 1E). This resulted in a series of four paperback thrillers published by Simon & Schuster.

These are: The Courier (2003) ISBN: 0-7434-6489-3; Bagman (2004) ISBN: 0-7434-6490-7; Live Wire (2006) ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-0347-7; and Choke Point (2007) ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-0348-4

Each novel was nominated for a [Barry award] and features Simon Leonidovitch as protagonist, a professional courier who takes assignments that become dangerous. The second book in the series (Bagman) received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly (Publisher's Weekly, June 7, 2004, p. 37)

MacLarty was a leader of the Las Vegas Writer's Group, formed to help local writers advance their careers (John Przybys, Las Vegas Review-Journal September 20, 2009 pg. 3-J).


References

  • [1]Jay MacLarty's page at Simon & Schuster.
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