Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun

Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun

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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>With a new afterword.</b><br><br>"Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --<i>San Diego Union-Tribune<br><br></i>"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --<i>Washington Post Book World</i>