Jack Kelly, Author . Hyperion $23.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6615-1
Set in 1959 Rochester, N.Y., this excursion into noir from the author of Line of Sight
owes much to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, though it captures little of their panache. As divorced ex-cop-turned-PI Dwight "Ike" Van Savage (an...
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Jack Kelly, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-525-24778-4
Following Apalachin , Kelly's well-received debut offers an equally gritty, timely thriller about a Mafia hit man. Set up by his boss, hoodlum Sal Veronica barely escapes execution. He kills his attackers and makes a deal with the Feds: Sal will...
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Jack Kelly, Author Atheneum Books $19.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-689-12145-6
Kelly has moved beyond the promise of Apalachinok? spok and Protection ; his latest delivers big. Two laconic, supple voices give us different views of John Dillinger's life: one is a third-person account of Dillinger's last 14 months in 1933-1934,...
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Jack Kelly, Author Hyperion Books $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6614-4
Kelly writes in a clean, uncluttered style reminiscent of James M. Cain, featuring basically good men up against dire circumstance. In his third novel (after Appalachian and Mad Dog), the main character is a police detective, Ray Dolan, in an...
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Jack Kelly, Author Basic Books $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-03718-6
A novelist and popular history writer, Kelly traces the history of gunpowder from 10th-century China to the late 19th century, when it was supplanted by Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin. Kelly takes advantage of gunpowder's role in the histories of...
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Jack Kelly. Palgrave Macmillan, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-137-27877-7
George Washington, Henry Knox, Nathanael Greene, and Anthony Wayne are names written indelibly into the history of the American Revolution, yet they all started out green, working their way into legend by learning and adapting on the battlefield....
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Jack Kelly. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-137-28009-1
In this snappy telling of an oft-told tale, Kelly (Band of Giants), a journalist, novelist, and historian, brings to life the texture of central and western New York State in the early decades of the 19th century. The region, its settlers, and its...
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Jack Kelly. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-24711-7
Historian Kelly (Band of Giants) spotlights an overlooked campaign of the American Revolution in this richly detailed account. In the summer and fall of 1776, British forces in Canada attempted to invade the colonies by way of Lake Champlain and the
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Jack Kelly. St. Martin’s, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-28195-1
Historian Kelly (Band of Giants) endeavors in this novelistic biography to present a fuller picture of Benedict Arnold, the Continental Army officer who betrayed the American Revolution. A brash and moody military strategist, Arnold came under the...
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