Jeff Bailey's Blog
November 10, 2025
William Wright reviews The Defect by Jeff Bailey
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November 7, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Positive Trait Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.
Conspiracy thrillers are my all-time favorite genre to read partly because I’m a conspiracy thriller writer and partly because I just like a well thought-out, twisty, conspiracy. AJ Blanc delivers. In Pandora’s Gift, several government intelligence agencies are trying to take the lead in the investigation into the death of an American intelligence operative. No, it’s not just another unsupported rivalry between agencies. The operative worked for each agency, on the same project, but from different perspectives. The urgency stems from the possibility of releasing ‘Skynet’s’ evil big brother (look it up). The order: destroy everything immediately, if you can find it.The rivalry was imminently believable. The characters were as solid and real as any I’ve met in my reading. The premise of Pandora’s Gift was so contemporary that the whole subject matter seems to be in the news every day. Lastly, AJ Blanc’s novel seems to ask the question, “What could go wrong?’ Way to take events out of today’s news and craft a superb thriller.
I highly recommend AJ Blanc and all his thrillers. I’m on to another one. Five stars.
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October 27, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Positive Trait Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Positive Trait Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.
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October 21, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Obsidian Dagger by Brad Lamar
Excellent, engrossing, and so real. The Obsidian Dagger by Brad LaMar is an action fantasy that follows a family to Ireland and Scotland in search of their family roots. The teenage brother and sister find more than they bargained for. The tale is classic good versus evil with a twist that will blur the lines. I only know a little about the folklore of Ireland and Scotland, but this story seemed to be true to the legends. That made it all the more enjoyable. LaMar is a master of dialog and captured the teen-speak perfectly. I’d swear that These are the teenagers from up the street in my neighborhood. I’m glad to see that this is a series because I see a whole lot more story to tell. For me, Brad LaMar and The Obsidian Dagger is pure five star fun.
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October 16, 2025
Joseph Dubey Reviews The Defect by Jeff Bailey
The Defect by Jeff Bailey
Remember Three Mile Island and the meltdown they had? Well here is some more heart stopping action about a nuclear power plant, the Desert Canyons, a bunch of terrorists that have infiltrated the staff there, and a well-rehearsed plan to dump radioactive sludge into the river to create one of the biggest ecological disasters in southern California history. And what does a relief valve and a cold shutdown of the power plant have to do with it? And do Lenel and Brian finally get hooked up? Guess you'll have to get the book and read it to find out. I'm glad I did. Another good book by this author.
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October 13, 2025
The Levitation Game by Sharon Wagner, The Back Story
The Levitation Game by Sharon Wagner, The Back Story.#sharonwagner #thelevitationgame #thebackstory #jeffbailey #booksandauthors #bnbookclub #booksworthreading #McDonalds
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October 9, 2025
Above and Beyond: Radio Silence by William Wright, The Back Story
Death slaps your face, how hard depends on circumstances. AW.W. II veteran raised me, a quiet man with strong moral values and work ethicwho demanded excellence, not just of himself but of me. To put my upbringing ina Reader’s Digest format, let’s say my father did raise me up. Writing his warstory helped me understand the man’s hardened approach to life and why he cutvery few any slack.
Above and Beyond: radio silence unfolds from a youngman’s perspective. A boy loses his mother to consumption during the Depression.His hardened father shows little sympathy while struggling with his own demonsand burdened with raising five children. When the war comes, many of myfather’s generation had very little to lose, except their lives.
Our book is about the inner battle in a time of outrageousworld events and conflict. Written as a work of creative nonfiction, we pagedthrough flight records, war memorabilia, reflected on verbal anecdotes sharedby the veteran in his later years, and did vast amounts of research. Ourresearch focused on life near the bases where he served as well as the eventsof war. We immersed ourselves as best we could in the story. There wereemotional times during the writing, times of guilt and shame for not appreciatingmore fully the experiences endured by a boy as he develops into a man. A manwho struggled to turn me into a man while protecting me from the abuse heendured and never sharing his stories of deprivation. We must remember,cherish, and understand the Greatest Generation. What made these men and women?Why did they view the world so differently? Our book shares not just thethreats and violence of war, but the hearts of those living under thecircumstances.
Our mission in writing this story is to honor all veteranswho served in the history of our nation, whether in war or peace. We supportveterans’ organizations; we didn’t write this work to cash in on the sufferingand sacrifice of others. My editor/spouse is a 9-year veteran of the U.S.A.F.We give away copies and have donated our total proceeds to organizations suchas the Veterans Breakfast Club, where we took part in book signings. Above and Beyond: radio silence is now available at the library of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Colonel Mark C Vlahos (U.S.A.F.-Ret.) andauthor of Leading the Way to Victory gave the book advanced praise. Yoursupport will help veterans.
October 4, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews Deadly Vision by Todd Severin
Medical thrillers can be the bestthrillers, especially when they are eminently contemporary, like the controversiessurrounding AI in today’s marketplace. Deadly Vision by Todd Severin isjust such a thriller. Deadly Vision opens in the middle a high stakes surgicalprocedure. The developer of an AI that could have performed the surgery with alot less risk is a witness. It took me two chapters for my reading pace to recoverfrom the high-speed-read that the first scenes induced. The images that the descriptionof the AI surgery induced were breathtaking. Phrasing like, ‘Just what I needbefore the most important presentation of my life, a starched cotton decapitation’made the read even better. As a debut release, it was one of the best. Fivestars for Todd Severin and his imaginative creation, Deadly Vision.
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October 2, 2025
Camren Buron Reviews Not On MY Watch by Jeff Bailey
I had the pleasure of reading "Not on My Watch", by Jeff Bailey. The basic premise is one that is quite frankly, scary in its believability, because we have a number of crazies in this country with very similar ideas to the antagonists in this book. The hero is US Marine Cassandra Sing, who gets caught up in a theft of nuclear weapons from an Oklahoma military base by supremacists wanting to return to the original ideas of the Constitution, although apparently without the racist rhetoric that most such people in real life today embody. The action is tense, and is occasionally interrupted by flashbacks in Sing's life, showing her progression into the Marines. It embodies her determination, strength, and devotion to her duty, which should be an example for all US military personnel. The flashbacks sometimes came at unexpected moments, but this isn't a bad thing. Occasionally, it did cause me to lose track of where the main story was, but I picked it up again pretty quickly. If you, or anyone in your family, has been in the military, they'll see a lot of themselves in this story. For those who haven't, this story is a good way to better understand their mentality and commitment. Kudos to Jeff Bailey for an outstanding story! I'm looking forward to reading his next one.#notonmywatch #jeffbailey #booksandauthors #bookreviews #therorygilmorebookclub
September 28, 2025
Kerry Kennedy, Today's Featured Author
Kerry Kennedy, Today's Featured Author
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