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A different kind of rain
"It began when a cumulus cloud over a lake in the Canadian wilderness suddenly began to change shape. It rose high above the rest and acquired the anvil head of a rain cloud, and then slowly turned pale green and deluged the land beneath with a deadly poison. From that point on the story races through murders, international plots, high and low politics in Washington, clandestine government operations, and a shadowy enemy in whose hands held the secret of the green rain. The truth of what was happening, and of what was about to happen, was a burden carried alone by John Erickson, a journalist who had seen weather modification and defoliants used as weapons in Vietnam, had visited and seen what had happened to that lake in Canada, and understood the horror it all added up to. But someone was trying to kill him."
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1978
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About the author
Dewitt S. Copp
16 books1 followerDeWitt Samuel Copp was a writer whose work often focused on the Cold War,
He wrote more than 30 books, fiction and nonfiction, and many articles about the cold war and espionage, as well as another passion, aviation. A flight instructor and pilot, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Later as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, Copp helped develop equipment that created artificial rain by using airplanes that dropped silver-iodide crystals into clouds.
Mr. Copp began writing professionally at 19, when his first radio play was broadcast. After the war, he wrote radio and television plays for Kraft Theater, the Bell Telephone Hour and the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
He published his first book, an aviation thriller, ''Radius of Action,'' in 1960. In 1961 he and Marshall Peck Jr., an editor at The New York Herald Tribune, wrote ''Betrayal at the U.N.,'' an investigation into the death of Paul Bang-Jensen, a former Danish diplomat at the United Nations.
Hoping to increase United States support for the government in Taiwan, their next collaboration, ''The Odd Day'' (1962), told of the Chinese Communist shelling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Other works by Mr. Copp include ''Incident at Boris Gleb''; ''Overview,'' a history of aerial photography; and ''Famous Soviet Spies.''
Mr. Copp also taught history and civics at St. Luke's School in Wilton, Conn., and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.
He wrote more than 30 books, fiction and nonfiction, and many articles about the cold war and espionage, as well as another passion, aviation. A flight instructor and pilot, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Later as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, Copp helped develop equipment that created artificial rain by using airplanes that dropped silver-iodide crystals into clouds.
Mr. Copp began writing professionally at 19, when his first radio play was broadcast. After the war, he wrote radio and television plays for Kraft Theater, the Bell Telephone Hour and the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
He published his first book, an aviation thriller, ''Radius of Action,'' in 1960. In 1961 he and Marshall Peck Jr., an editor at The New York Herald Tribune, wrote ''Betrayal at the U.N.,'' an investigation into the death of Paul Bang-Jensen, a former Danish diplomat at the United Nations.
Hoping to increase United States support for the government in Taiwan, their next collaboration, ''The Odd Day'' (1962), told of the Chinese Communist shelling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Other works by Mr. Copp include ''Incident at Boris Gleb''; ''Overview,'' a history of aerial photography; and ''Famous Soviet Spies.''
Mr. Copp also taught history and civics at St. Luke's School in Wilton, Conn., and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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