Lethal Passage
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Lethal Passage by Erik Larson
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. 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. With a new afterword. Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling.that something real must be done. --San Diego Union-Tribune One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years. --Washington Post Book World| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780517596777 |
| ISBN 10 | 0517596776 |
| Title | Lethal Passage |
| Author | Erik Larson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Year published | 1994-01-25 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |