I write in the nuclear-based thriller genre because I have nearly fifty years of work experience in various nuclear related technologies. My first assignment, at nineteen, for the U.S. Army, was as a nuclear weapons electronics technician. In 2012, I retired as a senior member of the science and engineering staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State. While I do infuse my nuclear resume into my stories, I also base my stories on real events and real people. I based The Defect on the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island NPS in Pennsylvania, and on an attack at the Watts Bar NPS by a lone gunman. The female lead in Not On MY Watch, Lance Corporal Casandra Sing, USMC, is based on my oldest granddaughter, who is an active duty aviation fire fighter in the United States Marine Corps and on my experience as an Army nuclear weapons tech stationed at Ft. Sill, OK. My wife Patty and I have been married for forty-three year’s. It looks as though the perfect union might last. My favorite hobbies are my my three great-grandsons, my three grand-daughters, reading and writing.