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Life Detonated: The True Story of a Widow and a Hijacker [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Biography &Amp; Autobiography)
  • Author:  Murray Moran, Kathleen
  • Author:  Murray Moran, Kathleen
  • ISBN-10:  1944995323
  • ISBN-10:  1944995323
  • ISBN-13:  9781944995324
  • ISBN-13:  9781944995324
  • Publisher:  Amberjack Publishing
  • Publisher:  Amberjack Publishing
  • Pages:  258
  • Pages:  258
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2017
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2017
  • SKU:  1944995323-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  1944995323-11-SPLV
  • Item ID: 100370438
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A raw, somber emotional journey that concludes with hope and a measure of forgiveness.  Kirkus Reviews?

The gripping true story of Kathleen Murray, a young mother whose life was changed on September 11, 1976 when her husband, Brian Murray, a NYPD bomb disposal expert, was killed by a terrorists bomb. It details her childhood in the Bronx, her journey out of poverty with Brians help, and her own determination to take care of her two young sons after Brians death. While Kathleen heals, she launches a lawsuit against the city of New York to find out the real reason the bomb exploded, and at the same time begins a relationship through letters with one of the hijackers, Julie Busic. All the while, Kathleen becomes one of the founders of Survivors of the Shield, a group that advocates for and provides support and assistance to the spouses and children of New York City police officers killed in the line of duty.

Watching the towers crumble, few remembered America had been attacked on 9/11, once before. Kathleen Murray Morans own September 11th twenty-five years earlier occurred when her husband Brian, a member of the New York City Bomb Squad was killed defusing a bomb Croatian freedom-fighters placed in a Grand Central Station locker before hijacking TWA flight 355 from La Guardia airport.
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Life Detonated?is the story of how that bomb ripped through Kathleens life. The life she had so carefully created after spending her childhood in a bug-infested basement of a Bronx tenement, one of eight children, where the door was left open to drug dealers and pimps, until she was saved by the man who became a hero to Kathleen and the city of New York.
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This is a survivors story. It is the story of moving from being the unintended target of political terrorism to becoming the founder of Survivors of the Shield, a group that advocates for and provides support and assistance to the spouses and children ol“ä