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David J. Horn

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David J. Horn (born 2 June 1970) is an American novelist living in Greece working as a software engineer.

In August 2007 he published his first novel, The Unsolvable Circus, a novel so subversive that it rebels against the end; a comedy of errors that features a menagerie of bizarre and hapless characters: octogenarian kidnappers, secret agents, a computer language called COD, a witchdoctor, the classified protocol NO-T4U-2C, the Scatological Encryption Algorithm and a prostitute with a mustache that Rollie Fingers would be proud of.

In 2013 he published his second novel, Hard Labor, which is a fractured look at the anti-hero Jamie Dropping’s life and demise. It is a novel that mythologizes Jamie’s labors as he tries his best to fit in and no
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