Background
Jack Kelly was born in Rochester, New York, United States.
(A Mafia hit man is forced into the Federal Witness Protec...)
A Mafia hit man is forced into the Federal Witness Protection program and begins to make a new life for himself and his family, unaware that this new life contains some old dangers.
https://www.amazon.com/Protection-Jack-Kelly/dp/0525247785/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Protection+Jack+Kelly&qid=1580122879&s=books&sr=1-1
1989
(An old man looks back on his youth, describing the night ...)
An old man looks back on his youth, describing the night he was mistaken for Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger, saved from lynching, and inspired to begin a carnival show based on Dillinger's exploits.
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Dog-Jack-Kelly/dp/0689121458/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Mad+Dog+Jack+Kelly&qid=1580122961&s=books&sr=1-1
1992
(Jack Kelly packs a punch in his latest novel set in the d...)
Jack Kelly packs a punch in his latest novel set in the deceptively quiet neighborhoods of 1950s Rochester, New York. Ike Van Savage's latest case starts out simple enough: a threatening husband and a beleaguered wife. But before he knows it, he's pulled into a serpentine mystery that involves the town's most notorious gangster, a dead heiress, and one too many 'accidents.' Mobtown seethes with undercurrents of passion, drips with moody detail, and brims with proof that Jack Kelly deserves an honored place among writers of suspense and detective fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/Mobtown-Jack-Kelly/dp/0786889810/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=mob+town+jack+kelly&qid=1580123087&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr1
2002
(When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explo...)
When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs - neither of which had been thought of yet - their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation-state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009IU57IS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
2004
(Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for...)
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L73JQ8Q/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3
2014
(Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual an...)
Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this "psychic highway" from its opening in 1825 through 1844. "Wage slave" Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first "crime of the century," a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019CB3SXS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2016
(The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account ...)
The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CWRL21R/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2019
Jack Kelly was born in Rochester, New York, United States.
In 1972 Jack Kelly received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College.
Since 1987 Jack Kelly has been a writer. He also worked variously as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, factory worker, farmhand, taxi driver, racetrack employee, business journalist, screenwriter, historian, and emergency medical technician.
He has published Apalachin (1987), Protection (1989), Mad Dog (1992), Line of Sight (2000), Mobtown (2002), etc. His book, Heaven’s Ditch, is a rollicking account of the Erie Canal and the political and religious upheavals that erupted along its length. Band of Giants is a pithy and insightful history of the Revolutionary war. Gunpowder offers readers an account of the world’s first explosive substance, an invention that quite literally changed the world.
Jack has appeared on NPR, PBS, and The History Channel. He has written for national publications including the Wall Street Journal and American Heritage.
(An old man looks back on his youth, describing the night ...)
1992(A Mafia hit man is forced into the Federal Witness Protec...)
1989(When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explo...)
2004(Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual an...)
2016(The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly offers a vivid account ...)
2019(Jack Kelly packs a punch in his latest novel set in the d...)
2002(Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for...)
2014Jack Kelly is a member of the Mystery Writers of America.