Tim Ayliffe on State of Fear - with Stan Grant

John Bailey is back! Ripped straight from the headlines, State of Fear is the new thriller by author and journalist Tim Ayliffe featuring the irresistible Aussie anti-hero. 

Tim is in-conversation with broadcaster and avid reader Joe O'Brien! 

About the Book

John Bailey has a history of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The former war correspondent has been kidnapped and tortured – twice. Finally he’s living something that resembles a normal life. But all that changes when a terrorist murders a woman in front of Bailey in London. 

The mastermind behind the terrorist attack, and the man who tortured Bailey in Fallujah a decade ago, has a deadly axe to grind with Bailey. He taunts him with threats of more attacks in other cities, closer to home.

Back in Sydney, the people who matter most to Bailey have become targets. Bailey turns to the only man who can help – ruthless CIA veteran Ronnie Johnson – to bring down the world’s most deadly terrorist. 

In this second instalment of the series featuring irresistible Aussie anti-hero, John Bailey, author and journalist Tim Ayliffe has written a gripping thriller that couldn’t be more timely or terrifying.

"As a correspondent, I lived this world. Tim Ayliffe has written it" - Stan Grant.

"Sharp, incisive and scarily prescient, I was hooked from the first chapter to the final page.’  - Sara Foster, bestselling author of The Hidden Hours.

"Utterly compelling and terrifyingly timely. I could not put it down"  - Pip Drysdale, bestselling author of The Sunday Girl.

About the Author

Tim Ayliffe has been a journalist for 20 years and is the managing editor of television and video for ABC News. He has also worked as TV news editor for ABC News and executive producer of ABC News Breakfast. Before joining the ABC Tim worked

in London for Sky News. He is the author The Greater Good, the first of a three-book series featuring John Bailey. He lives in Sydney.