Full name: Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun

Author: Erik Larson Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Politics, True crime, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679759270 0679759271

This devastating book 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." In so doing, he not only illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate. Similar books: Parkland by Dave Cullen Pranklopedia by Julie Winterbottom Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge American Carnage by Tim Alberta Hidden America by Jeanne Marie Laskas Thunderstruck by Erik Larson El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo Antisocial by Andrew Marantz The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman Not in Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano Dead Wrong by Richard Belzer Down by the River by Charles Bowden Notes From a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders Newtown by Matthew Lysiak American Overdose by Chris McGreal