The Author

Jay Pelchen started his working life in an Aussie chocolate shop.

At university he studied mechanical engineering and physics, though his friends always said he liked reading too much to be a “real” engineer.

He has spent his professional career working to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, first as an analyst for the Australian Department of Defence and now at the UN’s nuclear watchdog.

The World That Was is his first novel.

Jay lives in Vienna, Austria with his wife Joti.