Jeff Bailey, author - My Writing Style

 A reader asked me to describe my writing style. Well, I spent 40 years working with nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, and in nuclear research. That is the world that I know. I believe that a writer should write what he knows. A firsthand account of the trials of a cancer patient written by a cancer survivor is always more real, more gripping. Dr. Robin Cook writes medical thrillers. John Grisham writes law thrillers. Clive Cussler writes sunken treasure stories. I write nuclear thrillers.

For my stories, I take real events connected to a nuclear industry from the news and base a story around the true events. Of course, none of the events in my books are factual. The cover-ups are too complete. I also incorporate some real events that have no nuclear connections to help tell the story. I find that there is usually more to a news story than is told. As part of the irony that I try to create, I present a fiction about the possible extended real news story to help me present my story. Last, I incorporate scenes, situations, and places from my life into the books. My book, I'm a Marine, is based, in part, on my granddaughter who was a Marine Aviation Firefighter when I was writing the book on my experience in the U.S. Army and on the experiences of my granddaughter, Corporal Kalli Bailey USMC . Part of the story is also a reflection of my assignment as a technician in the Army Nuclear Weapon Program stationed at Fort Sill, OK.

My name is Jeff Bailey. I write nuclear thrillers for a reason, I’ve worked in nuclear related industries, from nuclear weapons to nuclear research, for fifty years. Deer Hawk Publications released my first book, The Defect in June of 2016. In The Defect, I tell the story of a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant and why the government covered it up. The Defect is based on true events. Deer Hawk Publications is scheduled to release I’m a Marine in May of 2017. I’m a Marine is about a female aviation firefighter in the U.S. Marines who witnesses the murder of two M.P.s. She decides that it is her duty to stop them. Keep in mind that I write nuclear thrillers. The Chilcoat Project, to be released in spring of 2018, is about the theft of nuclear weapons secrets from a national laboratory. The Chilcoat Project is also based on true events. My current project, Wine Country, is based on the true story of the Radioactive Boy Scout, but with a more sinister twist.

I based the story line for The Defect on my years of experience building, testing, starting up, and operating nuclear power plants for the U.S. Army, private utilities, and in research. I also derived elements of the story from the true events surrounding the meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station in Pennsylvania and the assault by a hooded gunman on the Watts Bar Nuclear Power Station in Tennessee.