Windmill Bluff

<p><strong>Windmills ghosts psychiatric ward uranium domestic terrorism-rollicking and deep. Only Michael Hartnett. -Joe Edd Morris author of <em>The Lost Page</em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><em>Windmill Bluff</em> is a masterful tale that mines America's turbulent past to fuel its blustery future.</p>