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Jay Hector MacLarty (December 30, 1943 – December 23, 2010) was an 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 p. 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.〔 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 978-1-4165-0347-7 * ''Choke Point'' (2007) ISBN 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 p. 3-J〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay MacLarty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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