{"product_id":"lethal-passage-the-story-of-a-gun-9780679759270","title":"Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eERIK LARSON is the author of five national bestsellers: \u003ci\u003eDead Wake, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn the Garden of Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThunderstruck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in the White City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIsaac's Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, which have collectively sold more than 6.5 million copies. His magazine stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications and his books have been published in seventeen countries.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566139642130,"sku":"9780679759270","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62054804-19ac-4131-bef6-cc645d1abba8.jpg?v=1731891258","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lethal-passage-the-story-of-a-gun-9780679759270","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}