Bill Wheelen writes from the intersection of the street and the suite, chronicling the unwritten rules of power, consequence, and survival.
His completed works include From the Streets to the Street, a memoir of forty years moving between the Brooklyn streets, the Wall Street trading floor, federal court, and recovery; My Father's War, a narrative account of PFC James Wheelen's service with the 12th Armored Division in the final months of World War II; and The Shadow Republic, a prestige geopolitical thriller set in an alternate Cold War.
He works independently and with select collaborators on projects at the intersection of history, moral consequence, and institutional power.
A memoir of forty years moving between the Brooklyn streets, the Wall Street trading floor, federal court, and recovery. The 1980s trading floor documented from the inside — by someone who already knew how to operate in systems where the written rules and the operating rules were two different documents. Complete at 75,000 words. Seeking literary representation. Six-episode limited series pitch available.
A narrative account of PFC James "Brooklyn" Wheelen's service with the 12th Armored Division in the final campaign of World War II — drawn from military records, division histories, and the spaces between them. Complete.
A prestige geopolitical thriller set in a world where the Second World War ended through negotiated settlement rather than total victory. The institutions built to manage that fragile peace have been operating quietly for decades — until the system designed to prevent conflict begins evolving beyond human control. Novel complete. Prequel novella complete. Sequel in progress. Developed for television adaptation.
Full manuscripts, pitch decks, and world bibles available for qualified inquiries.
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