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Rent Thunderstruck
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Format: Quality Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: Sep 2007
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 463
Synopsis
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’ s “ great hush”
In 'Thunderstruck,' Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men— Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication— whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
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