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Jay MacLarty was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa.
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Jay MacLarty
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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.
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 This resulted in a series of four paperback thrillers published by Simon & Schuster.
These are:
The Courier (2003)
Bagman (2004)
Live Wire (2006)
Choke Point (2007)
The second book in the series (Bagman) received a starred review in Publisher"s Weekly. MacLarty was a leader of the Las Vegas Writer"s Group, formed to help local writers advance their careers.
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