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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun

Erik Larson

In this compelling book, centered around a devastating act of violence perpetrated by a 16-years-old boy with a machine gun, Larson not only illuminates America's gun culture--its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists--but offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearms. "Should be required reading."--Newsday.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Jan 15th, 1995
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.20in - 0.71in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780679759270
  • Categories: Sociology - GeneralLaw EnforcementCriminology

About the Author

ERIK LARSON is the author of five national bestsellers: Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac's Storm, which have collectively sold more than 6.5 million copies. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications and his books have been published in seventeen countries.

Praise for this book

"Larson takes us past the absurd myths, past the numbing statistics, and into the face of reality.... Journalism at its highest."

-- Los Angeles Times Book Review


"An artful slice of the story of what may be the greatest shame we as a nation have tried... to hide from ourselves.... Fascinating." -- Chicago Sun-Times