{"product_id":"lethal-passage-erik-larson-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Larson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679759271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679759270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/1994","brand":"Erik Larson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049203036415,"sku":"9780679759270","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e88a1fd-0bca-4b84-b71b-893d5ae5b615.jpg?v=1685000236","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lethal-passage-erik-larson-9780679759270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}