Ray Derby
Ray Derby spent forty years providing information on personal protection in the emergency management field. He provided chemical, biological, and radiological expertise and other support to five U.S. presidents. Derby is now retired and lives with his wife in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
Clouds of Deception
iUniverse, Inc. (November 22, 2006)
Government architect John Newman is immensely proud of one of his top achievements-the largest and most sophisticated emergency operation facility in the country, built to house top U.S. government programs. President Christopher Wilcox makes a top secret visit to the facility, but tragedy strikes when an earthquake destroys the complex. With the president presumed dead, Vice President Edward Vance assumes the duties of the presidency. Thanks to Newman’s design, the president is still alive-and Newman is now in charge of keeping him that way. Trapped inside, President Wilcox is powerless to expose an imminent threat to the United States, one that will forever change the American way of life. When rumors of the president’s survival begin to emerge, all rescue operations suddenly cease, by order of acting President Vance. Is one man’s blind ambition keeping Wilcox from resuming the presidency, or is there something much more sinister afoot?
BRADLEY’S GHOST
(iUniverse, October 2003)
When Running Wolf sees the crashed aircraft, he photographs the corpses of the eighty-seven souls as they disappear, and the images bring to light the discovery of a diabolic deed. The National Transportation Safety Board quickly determines this is beyond their scope of responsibility and requests assistance.
The investigation moves from the Sioux Indian Reservation and state of South Dakota to Washington, D.C., when it becomes apparent that domestic terrorists with a biological agent are involved. Federal agencies headed by FBI Agent Bill Bradley race against time in their attempt to discover and apprehend the masterminds behind the crime.
A scheduled bio-terrorist exercise provides a perfect smoke screen for the aggressors to strike their first major blow to the citizens of the United States. In the governmentÂ’s attempt to contain the threat within the borders of South Dakota, the exercise changes to a genuine fight for survival. It becomes clear that the state and local levels of government have been under-funded and under-trained to counter the real threat of a biological attack. Support comes from a surprising entity as the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians sacrifice a sacred secret in order to offer safe haven to the citizens. But will it be enough?
THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
(iUniverse, July 2002)
The Shadow Government is a spell-binding novel depicting a very true-to-life picture of what the future may hold as the world moves into the 21st Century. When Norm Shepard, an ex-Marine, is found shot in the back only minutes away from the nation’s capital, this sets into motion an investigation that reveals a chilling discovery. The terrorists are already here not only in Washington, D.C. but throughout the U.S., the plan is set, and the biological agent is on its way.
Emergency meetings are called, but it becomes clear that the U.S. is totally unprepared for a crisis of this magnitude. As the enormity of the threat and its ramifications set in, President Robert Hardy assigns Ross Chambers, an intelligence officer, another mission the closest guarded secret in Washington C Cthe Bluelight Project.
The President, without the knowledge or consent of Congress, has been secretly funding the construction of underground protective relocation facilitiess is racing against the clock and the very future of the country is at stake. Either the terrorists are apprehended before they can strike or the Bluelight Project must be fully operational before they do or there may no longer be a United States of America.
