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2006 Season
 John Hart was born in Durham, NC in 1965. He lived there for seven years before moving to Salisbury, North Carolina. In 1989, John Graduated from Davidson College with a degree in French Literature; he then earned a Masters in Accounting from UNC-Chapel Hill and a law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center.
After college, John held a number of eclectic jobs. He worked behind the bar of a London pub, worked on helicopters in Alaska and refurbished sailboats on the coast of North Carolina. For several years he was a banker at Wachovia Bank.
After law school, John clerked for the New Hampshire courts, where he was involved in a number of murder trials as well as many civil matters. After clerking for a year, John and his wife, Katie, returned to Salisbury, North Carolina, where John took the bar and joined a small, local law firm. His career focused on criminal defense work until his first daughter was born. Two weeks after that date, he was assigned to defend a child molester, an assignment that he was unwilling to take. John then shifted his practice to civil litigation, where he worked primarily on matters involving employment and labor law. After approximately two years in private practice, John left the law to write The King of Lies.
After finishing the novel, John accepted a position with Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor in the firm's Greensboro office. While he polished the manuscript, sought representation and worked to sell the novel, John built a base of private and corporate clients, and eventually consulted on just over one billion dollars in assets. John eventually sold the novel to St. Martin's Press.
After several years at Merrill Lynch, John signed a second contract with St. Martin's Press for two more books. Based on the response to his first novel and the amount advanced against his second contract, John decided to leave the firm to write full time. He did this with the blessing of local management at the firm, and has been assured of a warm welcome should he decide to return to the financial services industry. John's clients were also supportive of his decision. None of them have left the firm.
John is currently hard at work on his second novel.
The King of Lies (2006)
Chapter One
I've heard it said that jail stinks of despair. What a load. If jail stinks of any emotion, it's fear: fear of the guards, fear of being beaten or gang-raped, fear of being forgotten by those who once loved you and may or may not anymore. But mostly, I think, it's fear of time and of those dark things that dwell in the unexplored corners of the mind. Doing time, they call it-what a joke. I've been around long enough to know the reality: It's the time that does you.
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