{"product_id":"9780679759270","title":"Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun","description":"\u003cp\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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new afterword.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.\" —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024736207088,"sku":"9780679759270","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679759270_p0.jpg?v=1763607216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679759270","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}