James Y BartlettJames Y. Bartlett is an American author, editor and writer. He spent most of his career working as one of the most-published travel writers of his generation, contributing thousands of articles to a diverse collection of publications, including Esquie, Bon Appetit, Forbes FYI, Departures, Hemispheres and many others. His specialty was in the area of golf travel. And when he turned to fiction, he published the popular Hacker Golf Mystery series, seven exciting mysteries featuring his amateur sleuth, a golf reporter named Pete Hacker who follows and covers the PGA Tour and solves the murder in the next-to-the-last chapter. Golfweek magazine called Bartlett the Dick Francis of golf. It was one on of his first trips to Scotland, looking for something to read on the flight home, that he purchased a copy of John Prebble's The Highland Clearances, a history which launched Bartlett on a thirty year journey of research and study that led to this novel. Read More Read Less