Windmill Bluff
by Michael Hartnett
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Pub Date 23 May 2024 | Archive Date 27 May 2024
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Description
“Windmills, ghosts, psychiatric ward, uranium, domestic terrorism—rollicking and deep. Only Michael Hartnett.” –Joe Edd Morris, author of The Lost Page
The old psychiatric tower has been blown to bits, and FBI agents quickly determine that the suspect with the most plausible answers is a brilliant liar: Robbie DeFonte, a young YouTube star whose family chronicles are steeped in the darker history of the sprawling mental facility. A massive wind farm erected around the ruined psychiatric center buildings becomes central to a lurid tale that transports back a century earlier to unearth a legacy of hidden weapons and lost lives.
As Robbie offers his testimony to Agent Chen, he reveals tunnels below the long-abandoned facility, a dead body found down there in a military uniform, and the toxic remnants of large-scale uranium shipments. Through the lives of his grandfather, the Colonel who ran both the psychiatric center and the elaborate munitions depot, and his grandmother, who uncovered many secrets as a young bride, Robbie spins a yarn that takes the reader back to FDR's clandestine programs and pushes ahead to a wind farm fraught with danger and hope.
Windmill Bluff is a masterful tale that mines America’s turbulent past to fuel its blustery future.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"A tour de force of fun and wonderment!" -Len Boswell, author of Barnum's Angel
"Windmills, ghosts, psychiatric ward, uranium, domestic terrorism-rollicking and deep. Only Michael Hartnett." -Joe Edd Morris, author of The Lost Page
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781685134181 |
| PRICE | US$5.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 313 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1086825
When FBI agent Chen begins to interview wannabe Youtube star Robbie DeFonte for his role in a domestic terrorist explosion in an abandoned psychiatric hospital that now is a windmill farm, she gets far more than she bargains for. Nothing is as it had seemed. Robbie is willing to tell all, but only on his terms and in his own time. Can there be any truth to what he says? As crazy as it all sounds, his grandfather did run the facilities for decades. And his grandmother, Cold Megan, is the only living eyewitness.
The case is not straightforward at all. It’s not just about the explosion or the white terrorist group’s determination to destroy the wind farm. It goes way back—all the way to the 1920s and how the facilities were used as clandestine arms storage. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt is involved.
“Windmill Bluff” by Michael Hartnett is a complex and compelling tale that pulled me in from the first page and kept me going until the end. Despite the somber theme of the book, the writing was the wittiest I’ve seen in a long, long time. I pushed ahead to finish because I really wanted to know the secrets Robbie was keeping, but I plan to reread the book again soon, and this time to savor every word. Many thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for an ARC of this incredible book. I can’t wait to read more by this author. My opinions are my own.
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