Lethal Passage, Erik Larson
Lethal Passage, Erik Larson
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Lethal Passage
The Story of a Gun

Author: Erik Larson

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/17/2019

Synopsis

This devastating book illuminates America’s gun culture—its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists—but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. “One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.”—Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day’s end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as “the gun that made the eighties roar.” The result is a book that can—and should—save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.

About Erik Larson

American born author, Erik Larson, grew up on Long Island and developed an interest in journalistic writing after seeing the movie "All the President's Men". He earned a degree in Russian history from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laudee, then a post graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1978.

Larson has written eight books, with six of them having been included on the New York Times Bestseller list. The latest books are: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania; The Devil in the White City (which is being adapted for a mini series produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio for hulu); In the Garden of Beasts (Optioned by Tom Hanks); and Isaac's Storm.

Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist, who has written a book of her own titled, Almost Home. Her husband says it could "make a stone cry". They have three daughters in various professions and live in different locations. They also have the ashes of their beloved dog Molly on a shelf overlooking Central Park.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on November 30, 2016

As coming from a diehard pro-second amendment hunting family (the stereotypical one that "clings to guns and religion") I am reading this to better understand the perspective of the pro gun control position. For better memory retention, I'm summarizing the chapters as I read: Chapter one: Introductio......more

Goodreads review by Chaz on December 03, 2018

I think given the passage of time, I would consider this book to be... Quaint. Yes, that's a good word. Quaint. It harkens back to a wistful time when school shootings only happened a few times a year and when body counts rarely exceeded a half dozen... You know... Stories that were a big deal in th......more

Goodreads review by Sebia on October 19, 2017

scary, educational and engrossing......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on August 22, 2018

An excellent read. The author traces the progress of a single semi-automatic pistol from its point of origin to the scene of a school shooting, using the stops along the way to illustrate what is wrong with a system that allows anyone to buy a gun and use it any old way, as one dealer, distributor,......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on February 03, 2023

This book is disturbing and infuriating. Also informative.......more

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