Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Recommended by Sahil Bloom and Raychelle Burks
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
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 menHawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communicationwhose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of al...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
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Sahil Bloom
“@sriramk Every single book that Erik Larson has ever written. Four of my favorites by Larson: • Devil in the White City • Dead Wake • The Splendid & the Vile • Thunderstruck | Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and In the Garden of Beasts by @exlarson Longitude & Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel”
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