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Al Macy

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Science Fiction, Thriller, Humor and Comedy

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Classic Science Fiction, Dashiell Hammett, Rocky and Bullwinkle

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Al Macy writes because he has stories to tell. In school he was the class clown and always the first volunteer for show and tell. His teachers would say “Al has a lot of imagination.” Then they'd roll their eyes.

But he put his storytelling on the back burner until he retired and wrote a blog about his efforts to improve his piano sight-reading. That's when his love of storytelling burbled up to the surface, along with quirky words like “burble.”

He had even more fun writing his second book, Drive, Ride, Repeat, but was bummed by non-fiction's need to stick to “the truth” (yucko). From then on it was fiction all the way, with a good dose of his science background burbling to the surface.

Macy's top priority is compelling storylines with satis ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 9,340 ratings · 834 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Conclusive Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 2,498 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Damaging Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #3 4.35 avg rating — 1,401 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sufficient Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forgotten Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #4) 4.32 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yesterday's Thief (Eric Beckman, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missing Evidence (Goodlove and Shek, #5) 4.46 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mind Reader's Christmas (Eric Beckman #4) 4.15 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contact Us (Jake Corby #1) 3.87 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Protected Witness: An Alex Booker Thriller 4.18 avg rating — 288 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drive, Ride, Repeat: The Mostly-True Account of a Cross-Country Car and Bicycle Adventure 3.67 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“God’s will is a jigsaw puzzle. Until you put all the pieces together, you can’t see the whole picture”
― Al Macy, A Mind Reader's Christmas

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“I’ll invoke a quotation from Mark Twain: “When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.” I”
― Al Macy, Drive, Ride, Repeat: The Mostly-True Account of a Cross-Country Car and Bicycle Adventure

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“Exactly,” Guccio said. “The image I’m getting now is some fat alien lounging in a spherical spaceship, drinking a beer, watching The Wizard of Oz on TV, and yelling obscenities at the screen. I think I’d prefer a computer.”
― Al Macy, Contact Us

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“When they got the boxes inside, one of the younger council members said, “This is better than drunken Amazon shopping.”
Marie squinted and cocked her head. “What’s that?”
“You know. You buy something on Amazon when you’re drunk and then when it arrives, it’s like Christmas. You have no idea what’s going to be in the box.”
― Al Macy, Contact Us

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