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SUNDAY GIRL 32 23rd Mar 2014 – Author
ROY MURRY

Today’s Author of the Week is, Roy Murry. Roy listens to Sunday Girl every week but as he lives in Hollywood, Florida in the USA he gets up really, really early in the morning to tune in and join in with the banter on Facebook, before heading out to his day job at his local golf course.
Your company is always appreciated, Roy.

Introduced to me by a fellow Author of the Week, Danny Kemp, I knew that Roy, wrote books, did interviews with fellow authors on his blogs, worked at a golf course and manage to do quite a trade selling his books to fellow golfers.
Now, when you chat to people online, or join in with comments on common posts, you usually only, in truth, get a fleeting glance at their lives, and, depending on their levels of honesty and openness, mainly the top, glossier, levels of their existence. Time has a lot to do with it and the more followers or online friends that you have the less time you actually have to connect with the individual. Now if you took the time to engage more in conversation or ask them about themselves you don’t know what you will find. For the good, or the bad, in all likelihood.

When I finally got around to looking at the books that Roy Murry had published it was one of those ‘Oh my goodness!’ moments as this Author and Golfer has a whole massive background of adventure and misadventure. To say that his escapades would make an excellent adventure or thriller film would be rather an understatement. His book The Audubon Caper is based on fact and is autobiographical. I have started this and, although not had the chance to read all that much just yet, I am utterly gripped and wanting to find out all about the rather scary, real-life, adventures of Roy L. Murry, author.

Hailing from Lowell,  Massachusetts, USA, which is the home town of the famous poet and novelist, Jack Kerouac, Roy Murry is a decorated Vietnam War Veteran.
As a Green Beret, Special Forces’ Specialist in Operation and Intelligence he received a Bronze Star for Meritorious Achievement.
After service, he graduated from Bentley College, where he was the President of Pi Delta Epsilon, the Honorary Journalist Society.
He then spent twenty six years in the Caribbean hospitality industry as controller and general manager of hotels.

Roy is a father and a grandfather, now living in Florida, where he is semi-retired, working part time at a private golf course. Playing golf is his other passion after reading, and writing book reviews.

Roy Murry is an eclectic writer. His first novel The Audubon Caper is an Autobiographical True Crime story.

This 1977 story is of Roy being placed in a position as star witness in a major mafia trial and put on the witness protection program. With a million dollar contract on his life, he does the right thing and testifies against his best friend and the mob.

Although having seen many films, or TV series, I can honestly say that I have never known anyone, that has had those problems in real-life, before. The whole idea of the reality of being in witness protection must be one of both relief and frustration. Having to live your life with a massive secret, never mind having a mafia contract out on you, must be a massive strain. I look forward to finding out how Roy and his family coped under those circumstances.
No longer needing to be in hiding, as all who wanted him dead are now dead themselves or with other things to think about, The US Marshalls gave Roy the go ahead to write and publish The Audubon Caper.

Very much of the era, our possibly under-the-influence hero gets embroiled in Art theft, of an American treasure, via a so-called friend and, after being caught, the Government take full advantage of his situation and force Roy to work with the FBI and CIA in a covert operation to take down a crime syndicate.

This is the story of a man put into the situation of doing what is legally right over going into a life of crime with a dear friend he cares for. The choices we make, the aspects of life, balancing on the very edge, and the everlasting effects that follow, are all found within this literary delight.

Based upon the fact of Art Theft and the key witness having to go into witness protection for his own safety this book is a creatively written interpretation of an autobiographical life led. The Author’s notes at the end of the book will probably leave you wondering where the truth ends and where fiction takes over but on the whole, I am left with a whole new insight into the man that is now called Roy Murry.

Blimey!

Roy Murry has also written a contemporary adult romance book the Three Wives of Don Quixote Smith. 
His current ‘Work in progress’ is a drama/adventure story Homeless in Homestead to be out in print this coming autumn. It is the story of a war veteran’s trials and tribulations of being homeless in the streets of Miami, Florida.

Roy’s novels can be found in e-book and paperback on Amazon and

TatePublishing.com.

Twitter:  @roylmurry425
Facebook: The Audubon Caper