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 WorldBinding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/15/1995
ISBN: 9780679759270
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.71d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/12/1994
