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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
Written by Erik Larson
Narrated by Richard Poe
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About this audiobook
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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
Release dateJun 17, 2019
ISBN9781980040613
Author
Erik Larson
A Seattle7Writers project for literacy, this novel was written by Kathleen Alcalá, Matthew Amster-Burton, Kit Bakke, Erica Bauermeister, Sean Beaudoin, Dave Boling, Deb Caletti, Carol Cassella, William Dietrich, Robert Dugoni, Kevin Emerson, Karen Finneyfrock, Clyde Ford, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth George, Mary Guterson, Maria Dahvana Headley, Teri Hein, Stephanie Kallos, Erik Larson, David Lasky, Stacey Levine, Frances McCue, Jarret Middleton, Peter Mountford, Kevin O'Brien, Julia Quinn, Nancy Rawles, Suzanne Selfors, Jennie Shortridge, Ed Skoog, Garth Stein, Greg Stump, Indu Sundaresan, Craig Welch and Susan Wiggs. Foreword by Nancy Pearl. Introduction by Garth Stein.
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Rating: 3.492647101470588 out of 5 stars
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68 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Oct 5, 2023
Good expose of the firearms industry & the American obsession with guns. Published 26 years ago; still relevant today. Dyed, but spot on! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Oct 5, 2023
Made the topic engaging. Relevant as ever 30 years later. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Apr 18, 2013
A good read if a bit dry around the corners. Especially enjoyed the true stories of what happens when the wrong people get guns. Didn't really need all of the statistics but also enjoyed the story of the NRA and how it became the way it is now.