Bary Bowe
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Barry Bowe stands for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
He became a writer at forty-five. After being fired from a lucrative sales management position, he moved to St. Croix, vowing to never again work for a corporate entity, to chase the muse, and to learn the craft of writing. He taught algebra, geometry, and trigonometry at the Country Day School and worked as a bartender to make ends meet while taking correspondence courses. He landed a sports writing job with the territory’s Daily News. He broke his cherry with “A Taste for Revenge” in the men’s magazine Cavalier. He made daily commutes by air to a screenwriting workshop conducted by Jurgen Wolff on St. Thomas. Advised he could make it in Hollywood, he quit his job and moved to Venice Beach. He wrote a TV pilot, but the production company ran out of funds. Unemployed, he returned to the islands and became a freelance writer. He found a niche in detective magazines and wrote more than 100 true murder stories. |
He returned to the States and pitched the concept of Born to Be Wild to Connie Clausen, a literary agent in Manhattan. She liked him, liked the idea, and auctioned the book to nine publishers. Warner Books made a preemptory bid and the deal was done.
Born to Be Wild was originally published by Warner Books in 1994 and consisted of 80,000 words. The 2014 version was bumped to 124,600 words. Born to Be Wild became a Main Selection of Doubleday’s Book of the Month Club and was translated into German under the title: Der Wilde.
Born to Be Wild was originally published by Warner Books in 1994 and consisted of 80,000 words. The 2014 version was bumped to 124,600 words. Born to Be Wild became a Main Selection of Doubleday’s Book of the Month Club and was translated into German under the title: Der Wilde.
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Born to Be Wild
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True Crime
At nineteen, Bobby Nauss joins the Warlocks Motorcycle Gang and plunges into a life of crime. At 2:30 a.m. on December 12, 1971, he has sex with his girlfriend. At 3 a.m. he kills her and disposes of her body. As time passes, four teenaged girls are kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Because their bodies are found in or around the Tinicum Marsh, they become known as “The Marsh Murders.” The victims share three things in common - sex, drugs, and an association with members of the Warlocks. It takes the mobilization and galvanization of local, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies across the country to deal with the outlaw bikers and determine who did what, where, and when. Born to Be Wild is a true story of rape, murder, and deception. The book drags you into the misogynistic world of outlaw motorcycle gangs, places you behind prison bars, and pins a badge on your chest to pursue the bad guys. Justice takes twenty years to reach Bobby Nauss. [January 2014]
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