W. Chester Author Goes Nuclear in New Novel

Doing Bizness is a fictional story based on actual events that should make anyone interested in not glowing in the dark or dying a horrible radioactive death take notice.

West Chester-based author Mary Mycio says Doing Bizness is based on her 1990s reporting for the Los Angeles Times about nuclear disarmament in Ukraine.

According to Mycio, "the book opens with warhead engineer Anton Zvezda going AWOL in disgust when his strategic nuclear bomber base mutinies against Moscow and declares loyalty to independent Ukraine. He’ll put his warhead skills to work on a terrifying plot."

“This is based on fact,” says Mycio.  “The mutiny really happened. It was so chaotic that a group of us foreign journalists – I was the only American – were able to drive right into this top secret nuclear bomber base. A warhead engineer could have gone AWOL.”

Mycio moved to West Chester in 2007 after living in Kiev for 16 years.  This is her first novel is on Amazon and and she is making it available as an e-book for $2.99.

According to her biography on Amazon:

Mary Mycio was born in Poland to Ukrainian parents who immigrated to the United States when she was one year old. She reported on Ukraine for the Los Angeles Times between 1991 and 2003 while also directing a legal aid program for Ukrainian journalists. Since then, she has been splitting her time between international development consulting and writing.

Her first book, Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, was published in 2005.