Barry Vass was born and raised in Ontario, California. He attended college in Pomona, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii, where he studied Business Economics and learned to sail. He eventually moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he worked as a bartender in a well-known jazz club on Bourbon Street for several years, then relocated to Las Vegas, where he worked "behind the tables" in several major hotel-casinos. He essentially got the writing bug when his first novel, Bombing Runs, which detailed the life of a rogue policewoman patrolling the Las Vegas Strip in the middle of more...