Rain of Ruin: The stirring account of a young woman's life as a clerk for the Top Secret Manhattan Project

The nuclear novel corporate publishers would not touch. Rain of Ruin tells the story of a young woman killed by the American atomic bomb. Based on a real-life experience, Rain of Ruin is as true as Girls of Atomic City but far more tragic. from the back cover: Military leaders and historians have told the story of the atomic bomb. But the official accounts never focus on the thousands of ordinary Americans who helped make it happen. Rain of Ruin tells the story from their point of view for the first time. It follows Agnes Jenkins Flaherty, an eighteen-year-old country girl, as she takes her devout religious faith and towering sense of responsibility to wartime Washington, D.C. to work with the Manhattan Project. She quickly finds love in the city, but her budding romance is overshadowed by a growing sense of terror when she learns, from the Top Secret documents crossing her desk, that project scientists think setting off the bomb might destroy the earth. Agnes escapes that prospect, but not the heartbreaking disappointment and tragedy that follow.

Author: Mark Kelley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/11/2011
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781466470149

About the Author
Mark Kelley is a veteran of more than 20 years in broadcast news, both radio and television. He has worked as a news producer, reporter, and until June, 1999, he served as main anchor for WNDU- TV in South Bend, IN. He attended Houghton College, graduated with a BA from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and later earned an MS in Telecommunications and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Kelley has taught at Goshen College in Indiana, Syracuse University, the University of Maine in Orono, and is currently Director of Journalism at the New England School of Communications in Bangor, ME. He is the author of three books: a novel, Berman's Lament (2000, available from the author), a non-fiction book, Engaging News Media: A Practical Guide for People of Faith ( 2006, available from Amazon), and Rain of Ruin (2011, available from Amazon ). Contact the author: kelleymark2@gmail.com, 717-945-7988 24 S. West End Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603

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